Limit analysis of FRP strengthened masonry arches via nonlinear and linear programming

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 439-446

  Caporale, A ^a   Feo, L ^b   Luciano, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); C. Computational modelling; Masonry

Indexed keywords

A. POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES; COLLAPSE LOADS; COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; FRP STRENGTHENING; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; MASONRY; MASONRY ARCHES; NO-TENSION MATERIAL; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PROCESS TIME; SUCCESSIVE QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHMS;

ARCH BRIDGES; ARCHES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MASONRY BRIDGES; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

MASONRY MATERIALS;

EID: 84856495301     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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