Stability and strength of old masonry vaults under compressive longitudinal loads: Engineering analyses of a case study

Engineering Structures

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 218-229

  Carini, Angelo ^a   Genna, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compressive axial loading; Finite elements; Masonry vaults; Nonlinear material; Stability

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOADING; ENGINEERING ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FEM; GEOMETRICAL IMPERFECTIONS; LONGITUDINAL COMPRESSION; MASONRY VAULTS; MATERIAL AND GEOMETRICAL NON-LINEARITY; MATERIAL NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; REINFORCING BAR; SELF-WEIGHT; STRUCTURAL REINFORCEMENT;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

MASONRY MATERIALS;

COMPRESSION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASONRY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860782516     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.02.028     Document Type: Article

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