Multilevel approach for brick masonry walls - Part II: On the use of equivalent continua

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 196, Issue 49-52, 2007, Pages 4801-4810

  Brasile, Sandro ^a   Casciaro, Raffaele ^a   Formica, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Identification procedures; Masonry mechanics; Multilevel approach

Indexed keywords

BRICK CONSTRUCTION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BRICK MASONRY WALLS; MASONRY BUILDINGS; MASONRY MECHANICS; MULTILEVEL APPROACH;

BUILDINGS;

BRICK CONSTRUCTION; BUILDINGS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 34548756664     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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