STRESS ANALYSIS OF MASONRY STRUCTURES: ARCHES, WALLS AND VAULTS, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF HISTORIC CONSTRUCTION: PRESERVING SAFETY AND SIGNIFICANCE

In the paper, the authors present a synthetic overview of some results obtained by means of a number of theoretical and experimental studies developed on some classical masonry typologies such as arches, panels and vaults. The proper implementation of the analyzed structural problem, specialized to the specific case, which derives from the extension of classical structural approaches to structures made of masonry material, is shown to provide a reliable approach to the problem itself, also in the case of some reinforcement, as demonstrated by experimental data which are in perfect agreement with numerical results.