ANALYSIS OF THE QUASI-STATIC AND DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF BARREL AND CROSS VAULTS

In my thesis I deal with the static and dinamical analysis of arches, barrel and cross vaults made of no-tension material. This kind of material has different properties for tensile and pressure stresses. Such materials are for instance concrete, masonry with and without mortar. In my work I deal with vaults made of masonry. I am going to show the behaviour of such structures for quasi-static and earthquake loads, furthermore the vibrational properties are also analysed. It is usual that cracks appear on vaults even for small disturbance in the boundary condition. These structures do not behave linearly even for small loads, which makes the approaches more complex