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1 online resource |
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Springer series in solid and structural mechanics ; 9 |
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Springer series in solid and structural mechanics ; 9.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 broad studies in the subject it is not yet recognised, in particular within the seismic area, a unitary approach to deal with Masonry structures. This successful book contributes to clarify the issues with a rigorous approach offering a comprehensive new Statics of Masonry Constructions. This third edition has been driven by some recent developments of the research in the field, and it gives the fundamentals of Statics with an original and rigorous mathematical formulation, further in-depth inquired in this new version. With many refinements and improvements, the book investigates the static behaviour of many historic monuments, such as the Gothic Cathedrals, the Mycenaean Tholoi, the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the domes of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and St Peter's in Rome, as well as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The last chapter - the 11th - regarding the behaviour of masonry buildings under seismic actions, has been modified and integrated in order to take into account the numerous recent achievements of the research in the dynamic and seismic analysis. The focal point is that there's no dissipation of energy during the deformation of masonry structures, even if accompanied by cracks. If properly reinforced, masonry constructions have the sole resource to escape the seismic action developing the rocking without failure, under alternate seismic action. In this context, the rocking of pier walls, the main resistant components of the masonry structure, has been here thoroughly examined. Furthermore, the out of plane and the in-plane seismic strengths of masonry walls with openings has been investigated within the framework of Limit Analysis. Through an interdisciplinary approach, involving Mathematics, Engineering and Architecture, this book highlights the tight connection existing between the Statics of Masonry constructions and the principles that ruled the history of constructions, since the beginnings as far as the Seventeenth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Masonry.
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Historic buildings.
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Structural dynamics.
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masonry (building materials)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General.
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Historic buildings
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Masonry
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Structural dynamics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319547381 |
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3319547380 |
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