DISTRIBUTION OF UNBONDED PRESTRESS IN STRUCTURAL SYSTEM FOR BRICK WALL

Sustainability is a term used to describe Green House System. As an effort to promote sustainable development, a group of researchers came up with a new innovative structural system called Dry Masonry Brick House System (DBHS) that encompasses the 3R: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. To adapt this structural building system in Malaysia there must be changes in standard and specifications in order to suit Malaysian climate. This final year project examined work done by other researchers before amending the specifications. Similar tests were conducted in areas related to tensile strength analysis & compressive strength distribution in unbounded brick wall system and to further compare the strength to the conventional mortar brick wall.