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Vandoren, B. (author), De Proft, K. (author), Simone, A. (author), Sluys, L.J. (author)A mesoscopic masonry model is presented using the partition of unity finite element method. Joints are only explicitly introduced when a critical stress state is exceeded, resulting in a computationally more efficient procedure when compared to models in which all joints are a priori active. The performance of the presented model is demonstrated...conference paper 2013