Multi-scale analysis of masonry structures
Masonry is one of the most famous and widely used heterogeneous composite material, largely employed in historic and architectural buildings. Among the different approaches proposed to study masonry structural behavior, multi-scale procedures are modern and promising tools, representing a fair compromise between detailed description of masonry microstructure and computational burden. This work presents a multi-scale beam-to-beam model for the analysis of unreinforced and strengthened periodic masonry panels under out-of-plane loadings.