Per: Afonso rangel garcez de azevedo (UFF), Ana Luiza Campinho Paes (UENF), JONAS ALEXANDRE (UENF), Larissa Campos Granato Botelho (UENF), Thuany Espírito Santo de Lima (UENF), Euzébio Bernabé Zanelato (UENF), Markssuel Teixeira Marvila (UENF), Niander Aguiar Cerqueira (FACREDENTOR), Victor de Souza Barbosa (FACREDENTOR)
Abstract:
Structural masonry tecnics is a system used since antiquity, getting notoriety from the second half of twentieth century, being used widely nowadays, mostly in countries with high technological level, like European countries and United States. The simplicity in its executive process, quick construction, material waste reduction, resulting in a lower cost of the work as a whole, leads the constructor to choose this method. In this system there are no beams and columns, and the structural function is executed by walls, wich are formed by bricks joined by laying mortar, and diferently of conventional system, the quality control has to be very rigorous, once that small flaws can cause an irreparable damage. Thus, brick and mortar have to work as one to receive and distribute the loads through the structure without cause harms. So, in this work was made a bibliographic research in order to evaluate the influence of laying mortar thickness at masonry prisms with structural brick, for this were searched different authors and were made comparisons between their studies. According the biography, the increase of mortar joints cause a decrease of prism resistance..