Masonry is among the most widely used construction materials around the world.
Contemporary masonry buildings are primarily designed to comply with prescriptive building …

In this paper, a novel 3D detailed micro-model to analyse the mechanical response of
masonry panels under in-plane and out-of-plane loading conditions is proposed. The …

Masonry constructions are an important part of the historic and architectural heritage of
many countries and the analysis of their safety conditions, as well as the design of repair …

A novel thermodynamically consistent cohesive-frictional model for the analysis of interface
degradation and failure under either monotonic quasi-static loading or cyclic loading in low …

In this study, a new traction‐separation based constitutive model for use in finite element
simulation of masonry joints under complex loading conditions is developed for cohesive …

In this paper, a simplified micro-model based on a combination of continuum (2D) and
discrete elements was developed to estimate non-linear behavior and failure prediction of …

The auxetic metamaterials exhibit attractive mechanical properties, including negative
Poisson's ratio and compressional resistance. Although auxetic metamaterials have been …

The present paper proposes a new interface constitutive model based on the non-
associative damage mechanics and frictional plasticity. The model is developed in a …

This paper deals with mesoscale analysis of masonry structures, which involves fracture
propagation in brick units as well as along the masonry joints. The brick–mortar interfaces …

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings with cavity walls, typically constituted by the
assembly of a loadbearing inner leaf weakly coupled to an outer veneer with no structural …