Computer Implementation for Analysis of Complex Masonry Shell Structures

DOI

10.2991/cse.2013.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

computer analysis; finite element method; masonry shell structures

Abstract

The increasing interest in historic architectural complex buildings and the need to understand the behavior of historical structures has led to development of computational methods used for analysis of the masonry vaults. The paper deals with some of the explicit and numerical methods used for modeling the mechanical behavior of masonry vaults. After a brief description of complex geometry, a numerical method for the structural analysis is presented. The Authors introduce the basic principles of finite element method for static and dynamic analysis. The theory is then applied to investigate the static behavior of different kinds of vaults, for instance barrel, cross, sex-partite and cloister ones. These types of vaults has not been thoroughly studied mainly due to the difficulty of applying the classical theories to their complex shapes.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jerzy Szolomicki
AU  - Piotr Berkowski
PY  - 2013/07
DA  - 2013/07
TI  - Computer Implementation for Analysis of Complex Masonry Shell Structures
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 29
EP  - 32
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cse.2013.8
DO  - 10.2991/cse.2013.8
ID  - Szolomicki2013/07
ER  -