One of the research direction of Horst Lippmann during his whole scientific career was
devoted to the possibilities to explain complex material behavior by generalized continua …

This work is dedicated to the assessment of the nonlinear behaviour of masonry panels with
regular texture and subject to in-plane loads, by means of numerical pushover analysis and …

A multitude of composite materials ranging from polycrystals to rocks, concrete, and masonry
overwhelmingly display random morphologies. While it is known that a Cosserat …

Extensions of classical homogenization methods are presented that are used to replace a
composite material by an effective generalized continuum model. Homogeneous equivalent …

A novel multiscale strategy is proposed for the damage analysis of masonry structures
modeled as periodic composites. Such a computational strategy, whose aim is to reduce the …

This paper contributes to the formulation of continuum damage models for orthotropic
materials under plane stress conditions. Two stress transformation tensors, related to tensile …

Numerical modeling of masonry structures is nowadays still an active research field, and this
is partly due to a number of open issues related to preservation and restoration of historical …

Historical masonry structures have a great interest in civil engineering because they
constitute a large part of the world's building heritage. In this paper, the effects that different …

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 …

A specific rigid element approach is proposed for the in‐plane dynamical analysis of
masonry walls, whose seismic performance is strongly related to mechanical deterioration …