Publications

If you use COMPAS TNO for your research, please cite Ricardo Maia Avelino’s doctoral dissertation.

  • Maia Avelino R., ‘Thrust Network Optimisation for the Assessment of Vaulted Masonry Structures’, Ph.D. thesis, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 2023. (to appear)

If you want to know more about the method, please check the selected publication list below which shows how COMPAS TNO can be used to conduct the assessment of vaulted masonry structures.

  • Maia Avelino R., Iannuzzo A., Van Mele T., and Block P., ‘An energy-based strategy to find admissible thrust networks compatible with foundation settlements in masonry structures’, Mechanics Research Communications, vol. 125, p. 103978, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2022.103978.

  • Maia Avelino R., Iannuzzo A., Van Mele T., and Block P., ‘Assessing the safety of vaulted masonry structures using thrust network analysis’, Computers & Structures, vol. 257, p. 106647, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2021.106647.

  • Maia Avelino R., Iannuzzo A., Van Mele T., and Block P., ‘Parametric Stability Analysis of Groin Vaults’, Applied Sciences, vol. 11, no. 8, p. 3560, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.3390/app11083560.

  • Maia Avelino R., Iannuzzo A., Van Mele T., and Block P., ‘New Strategies to Assess the Safety of Unreinforced Masonry Structures Using Thrust Network Analysis’, in 12th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions, Barcelona, Spain, 2021, pp. 2124–2135. doi: 10.23967/sahc.2021.162.

This external collaborators or workshops have already used TNO to their research

  • Fugger R., Maia Avelino R., Iannuzzo A., Block P., and de Felice G., ‘A new numerical limit anaysis-based strategy to retrofit masonry curved structures with FRCM systems’, in The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 5 – 9 June 2022, Oslo, Norway, 2022 [link].

  • Maia Avelino R. et al., ‘An Integrated Approach To The Structural Assessment Of Historic Buildings: The Case Of St. Angelo Church In Anagni’, STRUCTURAL, vol. 241, 2022, doi: 10.12917/STRU241.13.

If you want to know more about TNA theory or lower-bound limit analysis methods, these are good references:

  • Block P., ‘Thrust Network Analysis: Exploring Three-dimensional Equilibrium’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. [link]

  • O’Dwyer D., ‘Funicular analysis of masonry vaults’, Computers & Structures, vol. 73, no. 1–5, pp. 187–197, Oct. 1999, doi: 10.1016/S0045-7949(98)00279-X.

  • Heyman J., ‘The stone skeleton’, International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 249–279, Apr. 1966, doi: 10.1016/0020-7683(66)90018-7.