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ENGINEERING STRUCTURES
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 431-439Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.05.009
Keywords
reinforced masonry; masonry vaults; limit analysis; static approach
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Reinforced brick masonry has experienced only scarce use as a fully structural material due to, among other reasons, the lack of design criteria and calculation tools allowing a scientific, but also practical, engineering approach to design and assessment. Aiming at contributing to a more widespread use of this material, a simplified method for the ultimate analysis of reinforced masonry arches and cylindrical vaults, based on the lower-bound theorem (or static approach) of plasticity, has been developed. This approach has been satisfactorily validated by comparison with experimental and numerical results obtained by more accurate numerical models. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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