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In most cases, the structural analysis of masonry buildings is properly approached by the so called no-tension model. Starting from the early papers by Heyman [1], that had a deep impact in Italy where the problem of ancient architectural heritage is highly felt, studies on the statics and dynamics of structural systems made by materials exhibiting rather poor, null in the limit, tensile strength, have extensively developed (see, i.e. [2] through [8]). The further assumption, that considerably simplifies the solution of the problem, based on some agreement with actual observation, is that compressed material exhibits indefinitely linear elastic behaviour, apart from local problems that are not included in a first level approach.
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Baratta, A. (1999). Scale Influence in the Static and Dynamic Behaviour of No-Tension Solids. In: Holnicki-Szulc, J., Rodellar, J. (eds) Smart Structures. NATO Science Series, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4611-1_2
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