Research Article
Experimental and FEM Investigation of Cob Walls under Compression
Table 4
Comparison between mechanical parameters obtained for Wall A tested at 0.025 MPa/min and mean values obtained from other specimens (0.077 MPa/min).
| | | σ1 (MPa) | σ2 (MPa) | fc (MPa) | ɛfc (%) | E01 (MPa) | E1/3 (MPa) | ν01 (−) | ν1/3 (−) | ωi (%) | ωe (%) |
| | Mean BCD | 0.15 | 0.70 | 1.12 | 7.63 | 16.90 | 15.37 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 4.08 | 4.21 | | Wall A-1 | 0.06 | 0.68 | 1.35 | 4.83 | 23.73 | 21.47 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 4.11 | 3.43 | | Wall A-2 | — | — | 0.74 | 1.66 | 34.68 | 30.21 | — | — | 4.11 | 3.43 |
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