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 …

In this paper, the so-called Couplet–Heyman problem of finding the minimum thickness
necessary for equilibrium of a circular masonry arch, with general opening angle, subjected …

The study of masonry vaults should take into account the essentials of the material
“masonry”–ie heterogeneity, almost no resistance to tension combined with a good …

Abstract A new Lower Bound LB plate and shell limit analysis Finite Element FE model for
the analysis at collapse of masonry double curvature structures is presented. The …

The two arches and the three vaults experimentally described in Carozzi et al.(2017) are
here analyzed with a novel robust FE lower bound limit analysis code, suitable to predict …

A 3D model for the evaluation of the non-linear behavior of masonry double curvature
structures is presented. In the model, the heterogeneous assemblage of blocks is substituted …

The analysis of masonry double curvature structures by means of the kinematic theorem of
limit analysis is traditionally the most diffused and straightforward method for an estimate of …

The applicability of the two fundamental theorems of Limit Analysis outside the domain of
Perfect Plasticity, in which they were originally established, is discussed. Specifically, a class …

A homogenized full 3D limit analysis model for the evaluation of collapse loads of FRP–
reinforced masonry vaults is presented. Six-noded rigid infinitely resistant wedges are used …

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