A simplified homogenized limit analysis model for randomly assembled blocks out-of-plane loaded

Computers and Structures

Volumn 88, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 690-717

  Milani, Gabriele ^a   Lourenço, Paulo B ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Masonry; Monte Carlo simulations; Out of plane loads; Random pattern; Simplified homogenization

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DEFORMATION MODES; FAILURE LOAD; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAILURE SURFACE; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENTS; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT; IN-PLANE; INTERFACIAL BEHAVIORS; IRREGULAR TEXTURES; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY; MASONRY PANELS; MASONRY WALLS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MOHR-COULOMB FAILURE CRITERION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OUT-OF-PLANE; OUT-OF-PLANE BENDING; PLASTIC INTERFACES; PORTUGAL; QUASI-PERIODIC; RANDOM PATTERN; RANDOM TEXTURES; SMALL SCALE; STATISTICAL VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC ESTIMATION; STRENGTH DOMAIN; ULTIMATE BEHAVIOR; UPPER BOUND; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING STRENGTH; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MASONRY MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RETAINING WALLS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTURES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77953136653     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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