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Ancient masonry structures can be seen as a set of rigid blocks where the deformation is taking place at the interface between the blocks. Rocking, twisting and sliding between them are possible mechanisms that actually take place under static or dynamic loading. A continuum model for regular block structures is derived by replacing the quotients of the discrete equations by corresponding differential quotients. The homogenisation procedure leads to an anisotropic Cosserat Continuum. For elastic block interactions the dispersion relations of the discrete and the continuous models are derived and compared.
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Stefanou, I., Sulem, J., Vardoulakis, I. (2006). Masonry. In: KOURKOULIS, S.K. (eds) Fracture and Failure of Natural Building Stones. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5077-0_8
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