[EN] Composite materials made with textile fibers both with polymeric and cementitious matrices are often adopted for the retrofitting of masonry arches and vaults. A specific project that analyzes the performance of ancient ...
[EN] The two arches and the three vaults experimentally described in Carozzi et al. (2017) are here analyzed with a novel robust FE lower bound limit analysis code, suitable to predict active failure mechanisms, lines of ...
[EN] The final results of advanced FE analyses performed on a Roman arch bridge, namely the Augustus Bridge (Ponte di Augusto) in Narni, center Italy are presented. The bridge, one of the most impressive Roman artworks, ...
López Patiño, Mª Gracia; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Verdejo Gimeno, Pedro; Milani, Gabriele(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] From the early 19th to the middle of the 20th century, brick chimneys formed part of the industrial landscape. As technology advanced, factories were abandoned and became absorbed by the cities growing around them but ...
[EN] Aim of the present paper is to numerically study the bond behavior of curved masonry specimens externally strengthened by Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer systems (CFRP). A simple 1D-modeling approach is presented to ...
[EN] An experimental program concerning the structural behaviour of anchored Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) externally applied reinforcements bonded to portions of masonry arches is described. Two different curvatures ...
[EN] A novel interface numerical model for the incremental analysis of the debonding phenomenon of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (C-FRP) reinforcements externally applied on flat and curved masonry pillars is presented. ...
[EN] A simple and reliable finite element model is presented, specifically conceived for the analysis of FRP-reinforced masonry arches. The approach proposed relies on the reduction of mortar joints to interfaces exhibiting ...
[EN] A mechanistic model with rigid elements and interfaces suitable for the non-linear dynamic analysis of full scale 3D masonry buildings is presented. The model relies into two steps: in the first step, a simplified ...
Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Lourenço, Paulo B.(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] Two simple homogenization models suitable for the non-linear analysis of masonry walls in-plane loaded are presented. A rectangular running bond elementary cell is discretized by means of twenty-four constant stress ...
[EN] Masonry arches and their typical failure do not fall elegantly into standard design and analysis methods. The system is highly dependent on geometry and failure is dominated by mechanization, not material strength. ...
[EN] The present paper discusses the results obtained by using a micro-mechanical FE numerical model for the study the bond behavior of some curved specimens strengthened by Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite materials. ...
[EN] The 50 m high masonry chimney located in the old industrial facility that houses the School of Engineering of the University of Ferrara, Italy, suffered severe damages during the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence. Afterward, ...
[EN] Aim of the present paper is the proposal of a simple modeling approach for the numerical simulation of the bond behavior of masonry specimens externally strengthened by FRP strips equipped with anchor spikes. The model ...
[EN] A simple holonomic compatible homogenization approach for the non-linear analysis of masonry walls in-plane loaded is presented.
The elementary cell (REV) is discretized with 24 triangular elastic constant stress ...
[EN] A two-step homogenization procedure for fast non-linear static analyses of FRCM (Fabric Reinforced Cementitious Matrix) composites reinforced masonry walls in-plane loaded is presented and benchmarked on a series of ...
[EN] In the present paper, a simple homogenisation two-step procedure is proposed for the analyses of both in and out of plane loaded masonry walls and 3D structures. The ¿unit cell¿ is discretized with 24 triangular plane ...
[EN] The paper presents an experimental study concerning the bond behaviour of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) sheet reinforcements applied to curved masonry surfaces. Such strengthening technique is more and more ...