Assessment of the seismic capacity of stone masonry walls with block models

Computational Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue , 2011, Pages 221-235

  Lemos, José V ^a   Costa, A Campos ^a   Bretas, E M ^a  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Discrete elements; Masonry structures; Rigid blocks; Seismic assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964336573     PISSN: 18713033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0053-610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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