Actuality and modeling of historical masonry

ABSTRACT

The following presentation deals with the masonry hauses in historical towns, regarding them with the aim to understand their constructive actuality and to point our the most suitable way of mechanical modeling. The research is not at its conclusion and only the main steps of its development can be illustrated toghether with some partial results, nevertheless both the approach to the constructive analysis and the modeling proposal are worth, in our opinion, to be presented and discussed, The first of them, as it will be illustrated, shows the peculiar feature of the masonry work present in historical tows in Italy and in large part of western area. From such peculiarity the second item derives a consequent way to model, from a mechanical point of view, such masonry walls (AU)