An approach to masonry structural analysis by the no-tension assumption - Part II: Load singularities, numerical implementation and applications

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Baratta, Alessandro ^a   Corbi, Ottavia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASONRY STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; NUMERICAL TOOLS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

MASONRY MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78751665531     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002791     Document Type: Article

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