A nonlinear homogenization procedure is presented for deriving macroscopic mechanical behavior of periodic masonry material. In particular, a Cosserat medium is adopted at the macroscopic level, while a classical Cauchy model is used at the microscopic level, where the constitutive behavior of bricks and mortar is known in detail. The nonlinear homogenization is performed developing a Transformation Field Analysis (TFA). A numerical procedure is implemented to solve the evolutive nonlinear homogenization problem based on a predictioncorrection technique. Some numerical applications are performed on the masonry Unit Cell (UC).
A nonlinear Cosserat-Cauchy homogenization procedure for regularmasonry based on transformation field analysis
SACCO, Elio
2009-01-01
Abstract
A nonlinear homogenization procedure is presented for deriving macroscopic mechanical behavior of periodic masonry material. In particular, a Cosserat medium is adopted at the macroscopic level, while a classical Cauchy model is used at the microscopic level, where the constitutive behavior of bricks and mortar is known in detail. The nonlinear homogenization is performed developing a Transformation Field Analysis (TFA). A numerical procedure is implemented to solve the evolutive nonlinear homogenization problem based on a predictioncorrection technique. Some numerical applications are performed on the masonry Unit Cell (UC).File in questo prodotto:
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