Structural Masonry

By J. Rots. 2020

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This text provides a basis for a standardized approach to structural masonry, using an integration of experimental and computational techniques. Accurate displacement-controlled materials experiments have produced an extensive database of strength, stiffness and softening properties for tension, compression and shear, and this data has been transferred into numerical models for simulating the deformational behaviour of masonry structures. The models have been implemented into finite and distinct element codes and have subsequently been verified against shear wall experiments and analytical solutions for masonry parts.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

Modeling Strategies for the Computational Analysis of Unreinforced Masonry Structures: Review and Classification (2019, methodology): “Other early applications of interface elements to masonry were reported in [55, 56] where a method was also introduced to enlarge the blocks so as to be able to use zero-thick-ness interface elements for mortar joints, given that they show a certain thickness in reality.”
Continuum damage model for orthotropic materials: Application to masonry (2011, background): “Masonry is a composite material characterized by an overall anisotropic behaviour from the phenomenological point of view [1,2].”
A review of experimental investigations and assessment methods for masonry arch bridges (2016, background): “The first to record the results of a series of model tests was Gautier in 1717 (Hendry, 1998).”
Experimental characterization of stone masonry in shear and compression (2009, result): “According to Hendry [36], the strength of stone masonry built from dimensioned blocks with thin joints would be close to stone strength, irrespectively of the mortar strength, which is not clearly confirmed in the present study.”
Implementation and verification of a masonry panel model for nonlinear dynamic analysis of infilled RC frames (2011, background): “3) calls for the definition of six material parameters, starting from the initial Young modulus (Em), a property that can be estimated by means of experiments or through the employment of a wide range of different expressions proposed by a number of researchers (e.g., Sahlin 1971; Sinha and Pedresch”
A micro-mechanical model for the homogenisation of masonry (2002, background): “For masonry under uniaxial compression, a lot of researchers claim that mortar is subjected to triaxial compression and the unit is in a mixed uniaxial compression - biaxial tension, see e.g. Hendry (1998).”