Equilibrium of cracked masonry domes

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering and Computational Mechanics

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 135-145

  Zessin, Jennifer ^a   Lau, Wanda ^a   Ochsendorf, John ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Brickwork masonry; Buildings; Failures; Structures design

Indexed keywords

HORIZONTAL THRUST; ITERATIVE COMPUTATION; MEMBRANE THEORY; MERIDIONAL CRACKS; RIGID BLOCK; SCALE MODELS; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; THEORETICAL MINIMUM; THRUST LINE;

MASONRY MATERIALS; STABILITY;

DOMES;

EID: 79958229697     PISSN: 17550777     EISSN: 17470785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/eacm.2010.163.3.135     Document Type: Article

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