A refined one-storey model has been developed which is able to evidence effects of interaction phenomena between axial and lateral forces in vertical resisting elements on torsional response of plan asymmetric building structures.... more
ABSTRACT The increasing popularity of simplified nonlinear methods in seismic design has recently led to many proposals for procedures aimed at extending pushover analysis to plan asymmetric structures. In terms of practical applications,... more
A FE beam model to perform static and dynamic analysis of fiber-reinforced masonry arches is presented. Based on a constitutive equation formulated for no-tension masonry beams, the model accounts for a limit to the material deformability... more
A refined numerical model of one-storey asymmetric building structure is presented which is able to overcome limitations of simplified models used so far. Namely, effects of inelastic interaction between axial force and bi-directional... more
In this paper, a numerical method is presented to perform non-linear dynamic analysis of coupled transverse and longitudinal oscillations of masonry beams with different constrains when subjected to any dynamic loading type, including... more
This paper deals with non linear elastic materials for which not all the stresses are admis-sible but only those which belong to the stress range, i.e. a closed and convex subset of the spaceof all symmetric tensors. The constitutive... more
Background: Some typologies of masonry constructions (e.g. towers or walls with openings) can be reasonably studied through simple beam or frame-like models. For these structures, shear mechanisms often play an important role inducing... more