Assessment of masonry shear-walls by simple equilibrium models

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 229-238

  Roca, Pere ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Limit analysis; Load path; Lower bound theorem; Masonry shear wall; Simple model; Strut and tie model

Indexed keywords

MORTAR; SHEAR WALLS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; STRUTS;

LIMIT ANALYSIS; LOWER-BOUND THEOREM; MASONRY SHEAR WALLS;

MASONRY CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 29144455440     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2005.08.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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