Non-linear hygrothermal failure analysis of an external clay brick wall by FEM - A case study

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4454-4464

  Del Coz Diaz J J ^a   Martínez Luengas, A Lozano ^a   Adam, J M ^b   Rodríguez, A Martín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Case study; Concrete; External brick wall; Finite element modelling; Hygrothermal analysis

Indexed keywords

CLAY BRICK WALLS; EXTERNAL BRICK WALL; EXTERNAL WALLS; FIELD SURVEYS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; HYGROTHERMAL; LABORATORY TEST; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; OPTIMAL VALUES; OPTIMISATIONS; PARAMETRIC STUDY;

BRICK; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960259601     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2010.12.039     Document Type: Article

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