This work presents a multiscale method based on computational homogenization for the analysis of general heterogeneous thick shell structures, with special focus on periodic brick-masonry walls. The proposed method is designed for the analysis of shells whose micro-structure is heterogeneous in the in-plane directions, but initially homogeneous in the shell-thickness direction, a structural topology that can be found in single-leaf brick masonry walls. Under this assumption, this work proposes an efficient homogenization scheme where both the macro-scale and the micro-scale are described by the same shell theory. The proposed method is then applied to the analysis of out-of-plane loaded brick-masonry walls, and compared to experimental and micro-modeling results.
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Petracca, M., Pelà, L., Rossi, R., Oller, S., Camata, G., & Spacone, E. (2017). Multiscale computational first order homogenization of thick shells for the analysis of out-of-plane loaded masonry walls. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 315, 273–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2016.10.046
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