Stochastic Modeling of Chaotic Masonry via Mesostructural Characterization
Stochastic Modeling of Chaotic Masonry via Mesostructural Characterization
The purpose of this study is to explore three numerical approaches to the elastic homogenization of disordered masonry structures with moderate meso/macro-lengthscale ratio. The methods investigated include a representative of perturbation methods, the Karhunen-Loeve expansion technique coupled with Monte-Carlo simulations and a solver based on the Hashin-Shtrikman variational principles. In …