A Mesoscale Approach for Concrete Block Masonry

A comprehensive understanding of the concrete block masonry’s mesostructure on its macroscopic mechanical behavior is meaningful for modern masonry. The mesoscale numerical method provides an extremely powerful analyzing tool this problem. However, it still difficult to analyze mesomodel efficiently due a large number operating processes caused by components’ nonlinear properties. An efficient finite-element-method-based approach masonry was introduced in paper. benchmark test results obtained show that able simulate and failure. According simulation studies, positive effect mortar strength compressive obtained. Besides, obvious relationship between also observed.