Homogenization of masonry using a micro-mechanical model:Compressive behaviour

The present paper aims at further discussing the mechanics of masonry under compression and at proposing a homogenisation tool that is able to reproduce the results of advanced non-linear finite element computations, at a marginal fraction of the cost. For this purpose, a homogenisation approach previously developed by the authors [1,2], is extended to the case of masonry under compression. The proposed simplified approach provides results almost equal to very complex non-linear finite element analysis of a masonry representative volume.