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JOURNAL PAPERS
DeJong, MJ, Ochsendorf, J, and Metrikine, A. “Collapse of rocking structures due to multiple impulse and earthquake loading,” in preparation.

DeJong, MJ, Belletti, B, Hendriks, MAN, Rots, JG. “Shell elements for sequentially linear analysis: Lateral failure of masonry structures”, submitted for publication.

DeJong, MJ, Hendriks, MAN, Rots, JG. “Sequentially linear analysis of fracture under non-proportional loading,”
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 75, pp. 5042-5056, December 2008.

DeJong, M.J., De Lorenzis, L., Adams, S., and Ochsendorf, J. "An Assessment Criterion for Masonry Arches in Seismic Regions", Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 847-865, November 2008.

De Lorenzis, L, DeJong, M, and Ochsendorf, J.  "Failure of masonry arches under impulse base motion,"Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 36, pp. 2119-2136, June 2007.

Block, P., DeJong, M., and Ochsendorf, J., "As hangs the flexible line: Equilibrium of masonry arches",
The Nexus Network Journal,
Vol. 8, No 2, pp 13-24, October 2006.

DeJong, M., and Ulm, F.-J. "The nanogranular behavior of C-S-H at elevated temperatures (up to 700o C)", Cement and Concrete Research, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp 1-12, January 2006.
 

CONFERENCE PAPERS
DeJong, M.J., Hendriks, M.A.N., Rots, J.G. “Shear retention and mesh alignment during fracture using sequentially linear analysis,” 12th Intl. Conf. on Fracture, Ottawa, Canada, July 2009 (submitted).
 
DeJong, M.J. “Rocking block amplification through energy maximization,” Dynamics Days Europe 2008, Delft, The Netherlands, August 2008 (poster).
 
Rots, J.G., Hendriks, M.A.N., DeJong, M.J., and Belletti, B. “Stepwise softening for concrete and masonry structures,” in JF Abel, JR Cooke (eds.), Proc. of IASS-IACM 2008 (Int. Conf. on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures), Ithaca, New York, May 2008.

DeJong, M., De Lorenzis, L., and Ochsendorf, J. "Numerial modeling of masonry arch stability under impulse base motion", in M. Papadrakakis et al. (Eds.), ECCOMAS Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, June 2007.

DeJong, M., and Ochsendorf, J. "Analysis of vaulted masonry structures subjected to horizontal ground motion", in P.B. Lourenco, P. Roca, C.Modena, & S. Agrawal (Eds.), 5th Int. Conf. on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions, New Delhi, India, Vol. 2, pp 973-980, 2006.
 

THESES
DeJong, M. ‘Sources of high temperature degradation of cement-based materials: Nanoindentation and microporoelastic analysis’, Master of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Materials and Structures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June, 2005.