Linear Elastic Analyses of Masonry Walls

Authors : Erkut Sayın, Yusuf Calayır

Pages : 55-59

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Publication Date : 2018-03-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Masonry structures are commonly used in many countries . Load bearing masonry walls are the most important structural element in the masonry structures . In this study , a computer program was written in MATLAB for linear elastic analyses of masonry walls . In addition , a mesh program which meshes the wall as two dimensional model was written in MATLAB. These models were constituted with macro modelling approach . Three different load cases were applied to two dimensional masonry model with opening . The obtained results from the linear elastic analysis were compared with ANSYS software results .
Keywords : Masonry walls, Linear elastic behaviour, Finite element method