Masonry Dry Joint

[kesavapraba]

Dear Sir/Madam
I will have to model a 3D stone masonry structure (Fig attached), which will be tested in a laboratory. It has dry joints, i.e., no mortar in between stones. I will model the structure using solid element (bbarBrick) assigning DamageTC3D constitutive law for the stones in STKO. However, I am not sure how to model the joint between the stones. Could you please guide me on it? Thanks.

P.S: Sorry, some terminologies in the figure may not make sense. They can be known only from the local region.

[STKO Team]

Dear Prabakaran,

We have a new contact element that we will present in the next webinar (14th of October). We will also implement a tool that will make this modelling a lot easier.

You can watch the webinar and we can talk about it later ok?

[kesavapraba]

Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your response. Sure, I will watch your next webinar.