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Leidy Elvira Bejarano-Urrego

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Differential soil settlements can induce structural damage to heritage buildings, causing not only economic but also cultural value losses. In 1963, the Saint Jacob’s church in Leuven was permanently closed to the public because of severe settlement-induced damage caused by in ...

Numerical Modeling of a Church Nave Wall Subjected to Differential Settlements

Soil-Structure Interaction, Time-Dependence and Sensitivity Analysis

Historic masonry structures are particularly sensitive to differential soil settlements. These settlements may be caused by deformable soil, shallow or inadequate foundation, structural additions in the building and changes in the underground water table due to the large-scale ...

Crack growth in masonry

Numerical analysis and sensitivity study for discrete and smeared crack modelling

One of the most common obstacles faced by engineers when making numerical models to assess damage in historical masonry lies in defining the most suitable constitutive models when there is shortage of either material characterization or experimental data. This paper presents the ...
Limited experimental data of mechanical properties of brick masonry are available in the literature, especially for those properties that determine the cracking behaviour, such as tensile strength and fracture energy. Moreover, the cracking behaviour is influenced by several othe ...