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Masonry is the building of structures from which individual units laid in and bound together by mortar;the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone,marble, granite, travertine, limestone, cast stone, concrete block, glass block, stucco, and tile. Masonry is generally ahighly durable form of construction. Local sandstone and clay brick materials were used in order to obtain resultsrepresentative with respect to local constructions. Aiming at a comprehensive material description, a set of displacementcontrolled experiments were carried out, both under monotonic and cyclic compressive loading. A study on themechanical behaviour of brick masonry structures subjected to overloading phenomena is presented. Such structuressuffer a very specific damage, represented by diffused thin cracks, which can lead to long terms effects up to a suddencollapse. The procedure adopted for testing is described and the results are discussed, namely material brittleness,intrinsic variability, energy dissipation and stiffness degradation

M.Selva Ganesh, M.Velumani, “PERFORMANCE OF MASONRY STRUCTUR -REVIEW”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 7, pp. 699-702, July 2017.