Statics of historic masonry constructions

• Main Author: Como, Mario
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer, 2017.
• Edition: Third edition.
• Series: Springer series in solid and structural mechanics ; 9.
• Subjects: Masonry.; Historic buildings.; Structural dynamics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319547381; 9783319547374
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Masonry constructions are the great majority of the buildings in Europe's historic centres and the most important monuments of its architectural heritage. Given the age of these constructions, the demand for safety assessments and restoration projects is pressing and constant; still within the...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; 1 Masonry Strength and Deformability; Abstract; 1.1 Brief Notes on the History of Masonry Constructions; 1.2 Masonries of Historic Buildings; 1.3 Compression Strengths of Bricks and Stone Elements; 1.3.1 Bricks; 1.3.2 Stone Blocks; 1.3.2.1 Strength of Stone Materials; 1.3.2.2 Tuff Blocks; 1.4 Mortars; 1.4.1 Binders; 1.4.2 Aggregates; 1.4.3 Mortars of Lime; 1.4.3.1 Roman Mortars; 1.4.3.2 Mortars of Historic Masonries; 1.5 Tests on Rock and Mortar Specimens; 1.5.1 Tests on Rock Specimens.
• 1.5.2 Uniaxial Compression Tests on Mortar Specimens1.5.3 Stress Strain Diagrams of Stone and Mortar Materials; 1.6 A Triaxial Failure Criterion for Stone Materials; 1.6.1 Preliminary Considerations; 1.6.2 Porosity Effects. Micro-macro Stress States; 1.6.3 Micro-macro Failure Condition. Reasons of the Different Tensile and Compression Strengths; 1.6.4 Pores Shape Irregularity Factor; 1.6.5 Failure Interaction Domains; 1.6.5.1 Biaxial Domains; 1.6.5.2 Triaxial Domains; 1.7 Masonry Compression Strength; 1.7.1 Features of Compression Failure; 1.7.2 Valuation of Masonry Compression Strength.
• 1.8 Masonry Tensile Strength1.9 Masonry Shear Strength; 1.10 Masonry Compression Strength in Presence of Skew Course Beds; 1.11 Masonry Deformations; 1.11.1 Masonry Elastic Modulus; 1.11.2 Masonry Deformation at the Onset of Blocks Failure; 1.11.3 Stress-Strain Diagram of the Compressed Masonry; 1.11.4 Mortar Creep; 1.11.4.1 The Concept of Memory in Constitutive Creep Models; 1.11.5 Mortar Shrinkage; References; 2 Fundamentals of Statics; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Heyman's Assumptions; 2.2.1 Neglecting Elastic Strains; 2.3 The Resistant Masonry Cell.
• 2.3.1 Principle of Maximum Detachment Work2.3.2 Features of the Resistant Masonry Cell; 2.3.2.1 Stability; 2.3.2.2 Reversibility; 2.4 The Masonry Continuum; 2.4.1 Extension to Continuum of Heyman Assumptions; 2.4.2 The Crack Opening; 2.4.3 Compatibility Conditions on the Loads; 2.4.4 The Boundary and the Inside of the Cracked Body; 2.4.5 Compatibility Conditions on Strains and Stresses; 2.4.6 Lacking of Load Diffusion; 2.4.7 Specifications to One-Dimensional Systems; 2.4.8 Indeformable Masonry Structures; 2.5 Equilibrium and Compatibility; 2.5.1 Principle of Virtual Displacements.
• 2.5.2 Existence of Admissible Equilibrium States2.5.3 No-Existence of Self-equilibrated Stresses in Deformable Structures; 2.5.4 Indeformable Structures: Statically Indeterminate Behaviour; 2.5.5 Admissible Equilibrium in One-Dimensional Systems; 2.5.6 Admissible Equilibrium of Elastic no Tension One-Dimensional Systems; 2.5.7 Weight and Live Loads; 2.6 Mechanism State; 2.7 Collapse State; 2.7.1 Definitions; 2.7.2 The Static Theorem; 2.7.3 The Kinematic Theorem; 2.7.4 Uniqueness of the Collapse Multiplier; 2.7.5 Indeformable Systems. Lack of Collapse.