ROCA P.

Support displacements are a major cause of damage to masonry arches. In the last decades, the effect of large support displacements on the stability of masonry arches has been widely investigated. However, there is still a lack of studies dealing with inclined support displacements. In this work, a large experimental campaign was performed on a...

In this paper, the structural response of a segmental dry-joint masonry arch subjected to increasing support displacements was investigated. The arch behaviour was analysed in the framework of large displacements using finite element (FE) and rigid block (RB) models, both based on a micro-modelling strategy. Once the two modelling approaches...

This paper aims to investigate the response of a scaled segmental dry-joint masonry arch to the settlement of one support. An experimental test and numerical simulations were performed by applying incremental vertical displacements at the right support up to collapse. The experimental test was carried out on a 1:10 small-scale model of the arch...