Masonry Constructions: Mechanical Models and Numerical Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Elements of Tensor Algebra and Analysis

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

   Pages 1-17

3. The Constitutive Equations of Masonry-Like Materials

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

   Pages 19-50

4. Equilibrium of Masonry Bodies

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

   Pages 51-57

5. The Numerical Method

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli, Nicola Zani

   Pages 59-66

6. Masonry Arches, Vaults and Domes

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

   Pages 67-73

7. Comparison Between Explicit and Numerical Solutions

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

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8. Applications

   • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani, Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

   Pages 103-129

9. Back Matter

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Many historically and artistically important masonry buildings of the world’s architecturalheritageareindireneedofmaintenanceandrestoration.Inorder tooptimizesuchoperationsintermsofcost-e?ectiveness,architecturalimpact andstatice?ectiveness,accuratemodelsofthestructuralbehaviorofmasonry constructions are invaluable. The ultimate aim of such modeling is to obtain important information, such as the stress ?eld, and to estimate the extent of cracking and its evolution when the structure is subjected to variations in both boundary and loading conditions. Although masonry has been used in building for centuries, it is only - centlythatconstitutivemodelsandcalculationtechniqueshavebeenavailable that enable realistic description of the static behavior of structures made of this heterogeneous material whose response to tension is fundamentally d- ferent from that to compression. Important insights on the mechanical behavior of masonry arches and vaults come from as far back as Leonardo [10], Hooke [58], Poleni [92] and many other authors (see [47], [9] and [10] for detailed references). Castigliano, in his famous paper on the Mosca bridge [23], and Signorini, in his studies on masonry beams [97], [98], showed both the possibility and necessity of taking into account the weak tensile strength of masonry material.

• Algebra
• Arches and vaults
• Equilibrium of masonry buildings
• Explicit and numerical solutions
• Masonry-like materials
• Sand
• algorithm
• calculus
• masonry
• modeling
• solids
• stress

• Dipartimento di Costruzioni, Università di Firenze, Italy

  Massimiliano Lucchesi, Nicola Zani

• Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

  Cristina Padovani, Giuseppe Pasquinelli

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