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This project consists of a condensed summary of the research work that served as the base for a journal paper, and a web-based tutorial providing interactive applets with user guidelines and comments, teaching and explaining the basics of the structural behavior of masonry structures.

  
      SM thesis  [.pdf]
      online presentation  [.html]       
      InteractiveTHRUST website [.html]
      paper in Computers & Structures [.html]
 
 
Copyright, Ó 2005, Philippe Block, Some rights reserved.

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limit analysis for masonry structures - thrust-line analysis for historic structures - kinematic and static analysis - masonry collapse mechanisms - rigid body mechanics for masonry - masonry mechanics