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Masonry as structured continuum

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A structured continuum model is formulated to describe the behaviour of block masonry modelled as distinct rigid body systems with elastic interfaces. A correspondence between the two motions is obtained by postulating a relationship between the displacement fields of the continuum and the discrete models. The constitutive functions for the dynamic actions of the continuum are derived by equating the power of the two models.

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Viene presentato un modello di continuo con struttura atto a descrivere il comportamento meccanico di murature a blocchi, pensate come un sistema di corpi rigidi con contatti puntuali elastici. Il moto del sistema discreto e di quello continuo sono messi in relazione postulando una corrispondenzatra i campi di spostamento. Le funzioni costitutive delle azioni dinamiche del modello continuo sono ricavate uguagliando la potenza meccanica spesa in moti corrispondenti.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Via A. Gramsci 53, 00197, Roma, Italy

    Renato Masiani & Patrizia Trovalusci

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegneria Civile, Terza Università di Roma, Via Corrado Segre 60, 00146, Roma, Italy

    Nicola Rizzi

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Masiani, R., Rizzi, N. & Trovalusci, P. Masonry as structured continuum. Meccanica 30, 673–683 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00986573

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