Abstract: This paper applies the theory of contact to masonry joints. Based on the continuity rule of strain and/or displacement field, a plane finite element is derived for the nonlinear analysis of masonry structures subjected to ...

Abstract: Flows of viscoplastic fluids through sudden, conical axisymmetric contraction are studied. A finite-element numerical simulation is performed using a biviscosity approximation. Inertia is neglected. ...

Abstract: This study presents both a laboratory test and a model for simulating the polishing phenomenon of road surfaces when subjected to traffic. In laboratory tests a machine called “Wehner-Schulze machine” is used which performs ...

Abstract: A nonlocal damage model is proposed to predict the behavior of pavement fatigue cracking. This constitutive relation has been implemented in a finite-element code, along with a self-adaptive jump-in-cycle procedure for ...