The present paper makes a critical review of some methods and models, now available in
the technical litera-ture and commonly used in the analysis of masonry vaults up to their …

A review of methods applicable to the study of masonry historical construction,
encompassing both classical and advanced ones, is presented. Firstly, the paper offers a …

Abstract We address the Thrust Network Analysis (TNA), ie the methodology for modeling
masonry vaults as a discrete network of forces in equilibrium with gravitational loads, first …

Historical masonry domes are an important part of the architectural and engineering
heritage in the World. They have been extensively used to cover the spaces of temples …

General stability and failure behaviors of masonry domes under static loads have been
investigated extensively in literature. However, a few studies have been done on the seismic …

The Brunelleschi herringbone pattern was certainly known by the Sangallo in the 16th
century, who developed their own self-balanced construction technology for masonry domes …

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

We employ a r-adaptive finite element model to search for a 'safe'thrust surface of a masonry
dome, which minimizes the maximum tensile stress carried by the unreinforced portion of the …

Masonry domes represent an important part of the architectural heritage. However, the
literature about domes analysis seems less consistent than that referred to other masonry …

A large class of analysis methods has been developed during the last century for the study
of masonry structures. Among them, the so-called unilateral no-tension model plays a …