Masonry Dry Joint
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:37 am
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.
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.