Το work with title Influence of stones size on the collapse of masonry bridges by Stavroulakis Georgios, Borja Conde, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Belen Riveiro, Stavroulaki Maria is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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B.Conde, G. A. Drosopoulos, B. Riveiro, M. E. Stavroulaki ,Georgios E. (2015,Jul.),Stavroulakis3Influence of stones size on the collapse of masonry bridges.Presented at 8th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics [online]. Available:http://8gracm.mie.uth.gr/Papers/Session%20D1-C1/G.%20Stavroulakis.pdf
Masonry bridges have been measured with geomatic techniques, including terrestial photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning. The collapse mechanism and load has been calculated by using finite element analysis with unilateral contact and limit analysis estimation. From parametric analysis we can prove that the minimum size of the stone near to a hinge in the arising collapse mechanism has a decisive effect on the collapse load. Nevertheless, reinforcing this weak point, could lead to a different collapse mechanism.