Geometry and structural performance of masonry walls
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https://doi.org/10.66987/EPKO.2026.18Keywords:
masonry, geometry, mosaic, contact dynamics, stabilityAbstract
The structural performance and durability of masonry walls depend on the arrangement of its building elements. This paper analyses the bond patterns of masonry walls as convex planar mosaics and introduces the definition of cell density, which is the ratio of the number of nodes and number of building blocks on the surface of the wall. Through contact dynamics simulations, it can be shown that higher values of cell density can result in more favourable structural behaviour. Thus, cell density is the universal, quantified definition of the wall bond, that enables the estimation of the upper limit of structural performance of any wall, and makes different walls comparable.
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