CA model for predicting failure pattern of laterally loaded masonry wall panel
She Zhi-peng · Ha'erbin gongye daxue xuebao · 2007
This paper introduces a technique for directly predicting the failure patterns of laterally loaded masonry panels,based on the results of a few existing standard masonry panels tested in the laboratory and cellular automata.In this technique,the proposed transition function is used to propagate boundary effect into zones within the panel and then the state values of the zones are derived.Furthermore,the corresponding criteria is proposed to implement the cellular automata(CA) technique which matches similar zones between two panels.Finally,the failure patterns of unseen panels are directly predicted by matching cracking zones on similar zones.