TY - JOUR TI - An attempt to describe the stiffness degradation of brick masonry subjected to uniaxially cyclic compressive loads AU - Galman, Iwona AU - Kubica, Jan TI - An attempt to describe the stiffness degradation of brick masonry subjected to uniaxially cyclic compressive loads AB - The paper presents the results of laboratory experiments carried out on eight clay brick masonry wallettes of two types under cyclic compressive loading. Based on the results, the failure envelopes were determined, presented and discussed, as were common points stress- strain relationships for both series of specimens. The analytical description of the kinetic of stiffness degradation (with proposed appropriate formulae and experimentally determined parameters) was elaborated and proposed. VL - 2016 IS - Civil Engineering Issue 3-B (9) 2016 PY - 2016 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 55 EP - 64 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.16.211.5960 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/an-attempt-to-describe-the-stiffness-degradation-of-brick-masonry-subjected-to-uniaxially-cyclic-compressive-loads KW - clay brick masonry; compression; cyclic load; stiffness degradation; envelope curve; common-point cur