Stress-Strain State of Masonry Vaults
https://doi.org/10.22227/2949-1622.2026.2.15-24
Abstract
Due to the restoration of architectural monuments and religious buildings, as well as in connection with the construction of such facilities as Orthodox churches, the study of arches and vaults operation becomes especially important nowadays. Over the last decades the practice of calculation and engineering of building structures has included the use of universal PC software, that made it possible to significantly improve the calculation models, bringing their functioning as close as possible to the operation of the actual structure. One of the most common types of vaults is the domical vault consisting of two intersecting cylinders with the same elevation and resting on four sides. The calculation scheme of a domical vault may be considered in general as a system of elementary semi-arches, forming troughs and transferring the strut to the conditional diagonal ribs of the vault if there is a central light drum and the support ring thereof. The calculation of the considered structures in a nonlinear formulation significantly affects their stress-strain state. The values of deflections are found to have significant differences in linear and nonlinear formulations. Calculations of masonry vaults under consideration (especially those with large elevation heights) are recommended to be made with consideration of physical and geometrical nonlinearities.
About the Author
A. I. Bedov
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (National Research University) (MGSU)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anatoly I. Bedov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Structures
26 Yaroslavskoe shosse, Moscow, 129337
Scopus: 57200276743
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For citations:
Bedov A.I. Stress-Strain State of Masonry Vaults. Reinforced concrete structures. 2026;14(2):15-24. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22227/2949-1622.2026.2.15-24
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