Application of the arc-length method for the stability analysis of solid unreinforced masonry walls under lateral loads

Engineering Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 909-919

  Lu, Mu ^a   Schultz, Arturo E ^a   Stolarski, Henryk K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Force moment interaction; Out of plane stability; Slenderness ratio; Unreinforced masonry

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AXIAL LOADS; BUCKLING BEHAVIOR; LATERAL LOADS; UNREINFORCED MASONRY MEMBERS (URM);

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EID: 18144386858     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.11.018     Document Type: Article

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