Modeling of unreinforced masonry walls under shear and compression

Engineering Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2056-2068

  Chaimoon, Krit ^a   Attard, Mario M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compression cap; Fracture; Piecewise linear failure surface; Shear wall; Softening; Unreinforced masonry

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; MASONRY MATERIALS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

LINEAR COMPLEMENTARITY PROBLEM; MOHR-COULOMB FAILURE; SHEAR-COMPRESSION FRACTURE; UNREINFORCED MASONRY;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; MASONRY MATERIALS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; MASONRY; RETAINING WALL; SHEAR;

EID: 34547535725     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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