As part of its 7th framework programme, the EU is funding a project called INSYSME, in which 16 partners from six countries (Portugal, Italy, Germany, Greece, Romania and Turkey) are participating....
The economic outlook at the start of 2014 appeared hopeful, but the situation deteriorated over the course of the year. During the second trimester of the year, economic growth in most countries in...
For more than 15 years now, fire resistance testing of masonry walls and columns has been conducted in accordance with DIN EN 1365. The paper recapitulates recent findings of relevance.
Such walls...
1 Introduction
In the late 1980s, it was still widely believed that a few meetings would suffice for drafting a generally acceptable set of pan-European standards. Unfortunately, though, that process...
1 Background
Objective of the research project was the more precise description of the load-bearing behaviour of masonry built with vertically perforated clay bricks under shear load. Basis for this...
