Cosserat and Cauchy materials as continuum models of brick masonry

Meccanica

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-432

  Masiani, Renato ^a   Trovalusci, Patrizia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuum mechanics; Macroscopic characterization; Masonry

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRICK; BRICK CONSTRUCTION; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CAUCHY THEORY; CONTINUUM MODELS; COSSERAT THEORY; MACROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0030214344     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00429930     Document Type: Article

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