Failure of masonry arches under impulse base motion

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2119-2136

  De Lorenzis, Laura ^a   DeJong, Matthew ^b   Ochsendorf, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arch; Discrete element modelling; Dynamics; Limit analysis; Masonry

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LIMIT ANALYSIS; UNREINFORCED MASONRY;

SEISMIC DESIGN;

ARCH; DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GROUND MOTION; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LOADING; MASONRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DESIGN; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 35948946995     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.719     Document Type: Article

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