Given the popularity of fired clay bricks in increasingly taller buildings, as well as the large
variety of raw materials, additives, tempers, and production technology, microstructure-
based modeling of the brick strength is essential. This paper aims at linking the
microstructural features of bricks, ie the volume, shape, and size of mineral phases, pores,
and the glassy binding matrix in between, to the multiaxial failure behavior of bricks.
Therefore, a continuum micromechanics multiscale model, developed originally for stiffness …