A 3D Masonry-Like Model with Bounded Shear Stress

Abstract

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 equation that has been formulated and explicitly solved issufficiently general to include, besides the so-called masonry-like materials, many others whose stressrange is obtained experimentally or is theoretically defined. The model, implemented into the finiteelement code MADY, has been used to analyze a masonry panel under a bi-directional monotonicallyincremental load and the obtained numerical results have been discussed.