Height and Width Effect on Brick Masonry Wall to Defection through Finite Element Analysis
Berkat Cipta Zega(a*), Hakas Prayuda(b), Dzaki Fauzan Rusdin(b)

(a*)Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, 60231 Ketintang, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
(b)Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, 55183 Geblagan, Tamantirto, Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Abstract

The wall is an important structure to protect the inside of a house or building. The wall also functions to carry and forward loads from the roof. Wall collapse can be a structural failure that can make people die. Therefore, it is necessary to do an analysis in the form of modelling to the wall that will be built to review the damage that can be occur. There are 3 types of the wall, which is 3 meters, 3.5 meters and 4 meters of width wall with variation of height and load direction. The walls are modelled using software STERA FEM. This research was conducted to see the pattern of wall damage and to determine the high effect on wall stiffness. The result from this research shows that the pattern of damage to the wall, press on the bottom right and drag on the bottom left to the load direction X, then press on the upper right and left angles to the load direction Y. The walls were tested using variations in height and width produce the same pattern of damage. However, the deflection value for each wall is different.

Keywords: Masonry wall, Finite element analysis

Topic: Civil Engineering