RT Journal Article
ID 3a0969db5f04fd90
A1 De Bellis, Maria Laura 
A1 Addessi, Daniela
T1 A COSSERAT BASED MULTI-SCALE MODEL FOR MASONRY STRUCTURES
JF International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering
JO JMC
YR 2011
FD 2011-11-11
VO 9
IS 5
SP 543
OP 563
K1 masonry
K1 multi-scale models
K1 cosserat continuum
K1 damage
K1 parallelization 
AB This paper presents a multi-scale model for the analysis of the in-plane structural response of regular masonry. It is based on a computational periodic homogenization technique and is characterized by the adoption of the Cosserat continuum model at the macroscopic structural level, taking into account the influence of the microstructure on the global response and correctly describing the localization phenomena; at the microscopic representative volume element (RVE) level, where the nonlinear constitutive behavior, geometry, and arrangement of the masonry constituents are modeled in detail, a standard Cauchy model is employed. An isotropic nonsymmetric damage model is adopted for the bricks and mortar joints. The solution algorithm is based on a parallelization strategy and on the finite-element method. Some numerical applications on typical masonry structures are reported, showing both the global response curves and the stress and damage distributions on the RVEs.
PB Begell House
LK https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/61fd1b191cf7e96f,59ed44ee44c0572b,3a0969db5f04fd90.html