Journal
COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
Volume 118, Issue -, Pages 75-95Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.03.004
Keywords
Masonry; Fiber-reinforced mortar; Cohesive fracture; Multiscale modeling
Funding
- Italian Ministry of University and Research (P.R.I.N., Calabria Research Unit)
- Sapienza University Grant
- Italian Ministry of University and Research (P.R.I.N., Sapienza Research Unit)
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In this paper, a novel adaptive multiscale model is proposed for accurately predicting the nonlinear mechanical response of periodic brick masonry due to crack initiation and propagation under general in plane loading histories. Such a model relies on a two-level domain decomposition technique, used in conjunction with an adaptive strategy able to automatically zoom-in the zones incipiently affected by damage localization, with the aim of reducing the typically high computational effort associated with fully microscopic models. The proposed switching criterion is based on the numerical determination of microscopically informed first failure surfaces taking into account higher-order deformation effects. In order to assess the validity of the proposed strategy, a sensitivity analysis is carried out on a shear wall sample by varying the required input numerical parameters. An additional application of the proposed multiscale model is then presented for investigating the role of the fiber content in fiber-reinforced mortars (FRMs), recently introduced for masonry construction and rehabilitation, on the overall response of a deep beam sample. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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