Issue 51

A. Gesualdo et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 51 (2020) 376-385; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.27 383 Figure 5: Stress contour plots for 1-D approach [N mm -2 ]. Figure 6: Stress map for 2-D approach (a) and representation of the functions  1 ( ) g and   1 ( ) g (b) C ONCLUSIONS he essential elements of two variational approaches for the in plane behaviour of masonry walls, considered as NT structural elements, have been presented in this paper. Both the strategies allow the representation of the stress maps in the panel in case biaxial loading. The 1-D approach considers a diagonal strut embedded in the panel, T  1 ( ) g   1 ( ) g (a) (b)