Το work with title Unilateral contact analysis and failure prediction in stone bridges by Stavroulakis Georgios, M. E .Stawoulaki is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
M.E. Stawoulaki, G.E. Stavroulakis ," Unilateral contact analysis and failure prediction in stone bridges," Adv. in archi. series ,vol.15 ,no. 8 ,pp. 307-315, 2003.
Unilateral contact analysis with friction can be performed by general purpose finite element programs, provided that the user has basic theoretical background knowledge. These mechanisms are of great importance for the safety evaluation and structural rehabilitation of monuments. This is demonstrated by the investigation of some damage scenarios for a stone bridge.