Selvakumar Viswanathan, E.I.T 

Student Research Intern                             Dec '13 - Feb '14

Bridge Engineering Division, Structural Engineering Research Center, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

 

• Evaluated non linear material properties of unreinforced brick masonry experimentally

• Simulated material behaviour numerically in ANSYS

• Tested triplet brick prisms for 4 different mortar ratios 

• Performed numerical analysis for micro and macromodels of triplet brick prisms in ANSYS

• Compared experimental and numerical results

• Validated the comparative study based on results from experimental and numerical analysis under compression and shear loading 

• Authored a technical paper and presented it in an international conference in Dubai, U.A.E