| Title |
A Study on the Effecting Factors to improve compressive strength of the Concrete Block Structure |
| Abstract |
Concrete Block Structure(CBS) is a structure greatly affected by the quality of used materials and applied workmanship. In Korea, with all the improvement of materials, there are not enough research on the imfluence of the material properties on strength. CBS is being constructed under the condition that the interactions among materials are not being fully considered. For these reasons many problems are found on strength and capability. The research on the physical quality of material components was not sufficient, so far the experimental results obtained abroad was adopted in Korea. That research had the limit not to consider the unit block and mortar characteristics and workmanship differently influenced by the regional feature. Therefore, in order to make use of CBS reasonably, the research on both the physical quality of basic material components and the quality of each materials, considered more than any other factors, is required. In this paper Block masonry compressive strength by prism method was examed with the effecting factors selected in previous study. The specific findings through experiment were compared and analyzed. Futhermore, both the improving of method the strength of individual blocks and the material properities and combination to maximize the compressive strength of CBS are investigate. |