Phase-field models of brittle fracture can be regarded as gradient damage models including
an intrinsic internal length. This length determines the stability threshold of solutions with …

A specific rigid element approach is proposed for the in‐plane dynamical analysis of
masonry walls, whose seismic performance is strongly related to mechanical deterioration …

The present paper deals with the experimental campaign and the numerical modeling of
reinforced masonry arches strengthened with fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) strips. The …

Unreinforced masonry buildings represent a large part of the world's architectural heritage.
Despite their significant diffusion, their mechanical behaviour is still subjected to increasing …

Different scale approaches, micromechanical, multiscale and macromechanical or
phenomenological, are presented to study the structural response of masonry elements …

The prevalent feature that characterizes masonry structures and makes them dissimilar from
modern reinforced concrete and steel structures is quite definitely their inability to resist …

Many historically and artistically important masonry buildings of the world's architecturalheritageareindireneedofmainte…
. Inorder tooptimizesuchoperationsintermsofcost-e? ectiveness, architecturalimpact …

In the present paper, we propose the Continuous Displacement for Fracture (CDF) method,
a continuous energy-based numerical approach to find mechanisms and crack patterns …

The paper describes the numerical techniques implemented in the finite-element code
NOSA for structural analysis of masonry constructions. The code is then applied to the …

1. The principal subject of this book is to discuss how to use theory and algorithms of
optimization for treating problems in applied mechanics in a comprehensive way. Particular …