No abstract

An orthotropic damage model specifically developed for the analysis of brittle masonry subjected to in-plane loading is described. Four independent internal damage parameters, one in compression and one in tension for each of the two natural axes of the masonry, are defined allowing the stiffness recovery at crack closure as well as the different inelastic behaviour along each natural axis to be considered. The damage field of the material is defined in terms of four equivalent stresses and results, in the space of the in-plane effective stresses, in a double pyramid with a rectangular base where the slopes of the faces correspond to the internal friction angle of the material. The equivalent stresses also control the growth of the damage parameters. The returning path from the effective to the damaged stresses is given by multiplication by a fourth-rank damage effect tensor, which is a function of the damage parameters and of the effective stress state. Mesh size regularization is achieved by means of an enhanced local method taking into account the finite element size. Good agreement has been found in the comparison between numerical results and experimental data both for masonry shear panels and for a large-scale masonry holed wall

No abstract

The three-field formulation u-p-U is presented and is applied to solve dynamic equations for saturated porous media. In order to evaluate the accuracy and the performance of this three-field approximation, the u-U and the u-w formulations are also considered and a few one-and two-dimensional examples are solved using the three methods. Problems for which both the pore fluid and the solid grains are incompressible are also considered and are solved using the u -p U approximation. Accuracy was determined by a comparison of the finite element results with the analytical solution given by Gajo and Mongiovi," for a wide range of permeability.

No abstract