Building resilience and masonry structures: How can computational modelling help?
P.B. Lourenço, M.F. Funari, Luís C. Silva
Abstract
Masonry structures populate European historic centres as both secular and sacred monumental buildings. Several researchers focused on implementing advanced computational strategies to preserve masonry buildings structural integrity. Moreover, today’s tools and workflows offer possibilities for assessing vulnerability, simulating scenarios, and reducing vulnerability are opening new perspectives and challenges. This literature review provides a classification of the analytical and numerical modelling strategies for the structural assessment of unreinforced masonry structures. Finally, two-stepped procedures are discussed and suggested as valuable approaches to combine analytical/analytical, numerical/analytical or numerical/numerical methods.