EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MASONRY WALLS MADE OF THE WOODEN BLOCKS

Abstract

The wooden blocks made of the plywood using timber from thinning were devised to build masonry walls. One of the effective uses for wooden blocks includes seismic retrofit of existing old house. But structural characteristics of the wooden blocks are unknown. Therefore, in this paper the basic shear characteristics of masonry walls subjected to in-plane cyclic loading and the ability of reinforcing for existing-timber structures are clarified by the experiments for single wooden block, three piled-up wooden blocks and three staggeringly piled-up wooden blocks.