Application of asymptotic expansion homogenization in vibration analysis of masonry structures using finite elements

Semi-numerical micromechanical model for viscoelastic microcracked masonry

“…Finally, the detailed micro-modeling approach [27,28,52], modeling separately the mortar joint and the interface, is more accurate than the simplified one even it is more expensive in terms of computational time. Since, the masonry can be considered as an heterogeneous composite, it is noticed that some of the developed models consider elastic constituents [2,24,35], by contrary to others taking into account the nonlinear behaviour of these constituents such as plasticity [45,50]. Nonetheless, the creep effect of each component on the masonry behaviour is generally neglected.…”