Defferent walls and mortar materials produced wi̇th determination of mechanical properties of walls

The strength properties of walls depend on the strength of masonry brick and the strength of the wall as a whole. The factors, such as type of brick, mortar, wall pointing and bond pattern directly effect on mechanical behavior of masonry panels. In this study, 18 masonry samples have been built which all have 900x900 mm geometrical dimensions. In the bricklaying process, Polypropylene-fibre-reinforced mortars have been applied as binding material. Volumetric proportion of the mortar is sand:cement:lime=6:1:1. In the construction of the wall samples, hollow clay brick, solid clay brick and pumice brick (blockbims) were selected as masonry materials. The wall samples have been processed diagonal compression to determinate the shear strength. The horizontal and vertical displacement values have been taken from the specimens. Load-displacement diagram of the built samples, collapse form of the walls, shear strength, modulus of rigidity, energy consumption capacity have been determined. Load-displacement diagrams have been interpreted by analyzing observed behavior of the test specimens and emerged cracks. Collapse failure if the majority of wall samples have occurred on formation of diagonal cracks along the joint and sample was divided into two parts from vertical direction between brick and interface of mortar. Being observed that increase in shear stress of walls, which are built using fibre-reinforced mortar is much more than increase in shear stress of walls, which are built using reinforced mortar. As a result of the experiment it is observed that wall materials contribute to shear stress. Energy absorption capacity has been calculated as a result of calculation about the areas which is below from the vertical load-horizontal displacement diagram. The sample which has the highest energy absorption capacity is wall materials those are built with hollow brick and reinforced mortar.