Abstract
This paper presents a macro-block model and a simplified procedure for the prediction of the collapse load and the failure mechanism of in-plane loaded masonry walls, with non-associative frictional contact interfaces. The macro-block modeling is based on the assumption that the failure involves a single crack where all the possible relative motions among micro-blocks are concentrated. Two limiting conditions for the ultimate load factor are kinematically computed in closed form, by use of minimization routines of limit analysis.
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