Reinforced brick masonry light vaults: Semi-prefabrication, construction, testing and numerical modeling

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1799-1814

  Lopez Almansa F ^a   Sarrablo, V ^b   Lourencco P B ^c   Barros, J A O ^c   Roca, P ^a   Da Porto, F ^d   Modena, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brick shells; Damage models; Light roofs; Nonlinear structural analysis; Reinforced brick masonry; Semi prefabrication; Vaulted roofs

Indexed keywords

BRICK MASONRY; DAMAGE MODEL; DAMAGE MODELS; NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VAULTED ROOF; VAULTED ROOFS;

BRICK; FOUNDATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROOFS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BRICKMAKING;

EID: 77955266656     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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