In most masonry arches stresses are very low and, therefore, collapse does not occur because of material failure. As a consequence, the safety of arches should not be assessed by means of a safety factor based on material strength as for conventional structures. In 1969 Heyman was the first to state that the safety of masonry arches relies on their geometry and proposed a method for computing the so-called “geometrical factor of safety” based on the comparison between the shape of the thrust line and the profile of the arch. In this context, we have recently developed a method capable of computing the line of thrust closest to the geometrical axis and defining a safety factor based on the comparison between such a line of thrust and the profile of the arch, which we have denoted as “performance factor”. In this paper, that supplements the author ref. (Tempesta and Galassi, 2019), the Matlab code of our method is provided for unlimited and unrestricted use by researchers as well as academics for educational purposes.

The Matlab code of the method based on the Full Range Factor for assessing the safety of masonry arches / Galassi S.; Tempesta G.. - In: METHODSX (AMSTERDAM). - ISSN 2215-0161. - ELETTRONICO. - 6:(2019), pp. 1521-1542. [10.1016/j.mex.2019.05.033]

The Matlab code of the method based on the Full Range Factor for assessing the safety of masonry arches

Galassi S.
;
Tempesta G.
2019

Abstract

In most masonry arches stresses are very low and, therefore, collapse does not occur because of material failure. As a consequence, the safety of arches should not be assessed by means of a safety factor based on material strength as for conventional structures. In 1969 Heyman was the first to state that the safety of masonry arches relies on their geometry and proposed a method for computing the so-called “geometrical factor of safety” based on the comparison between the shape of the thrust line and the profile of the arch. In this context, we have recently developed a method capable of computing the line of thrust closest to the geometrical axis and defining a safety factor based on the comparison between such a line of thrust and the profile of the arch, which we have denoted as “performance factor”. In this paper, that supplements the author ref. (Tempesta and Galassi, 2019), the Matlab code of our method is provided for unlimited and unrestricted use by researchers as well as academics for educational purposes.
2019
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1521
1542
Galassi S.; Tempesta G.
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