Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; 1 Masonry Strength and Deformability; Abstract; 1.1 Brief Notes on the History of Masonry Constructions; 1.2 Masonries of Historic Buildings; 1.3 Compression Strengths of Bricks and Stone Elements; 1.3.1 Bricks; 1.3.2 Stone Blocks; 1.3.2.1 Strength of Stone Materials; 1.3.2.2 Tuff Blocks; 1.4 Mortars; 1.4.1 Binders; 1.4.2 Aggregates; 1.4.3 Mortars of Lime; 1.4.3.1 Roman Mortars; 1.4.3.2 Mortars of Historic Masonries; 1.5 Tests on Rock and Mortar Specimens; 1.5.1 Tests on Rock Specimens

1.5.2 Uniaxial Compression Tests on Mortar Specimens1.5.3 Stress Strain Diagrams of Stone and Mortar Materials; 1.6 A Triaxial Failure Criterion for Stone Materials; 1.6.1 Preliminary Considerations; 1.6.2 Porosity Effects. Micro-macro Stress States; 1.6.3 Micro-macro Failure Condition. Reasons of the Different Tensile and Compression Strengths; 1.6.4 Pores Shape Irregularity Factor; 1.6.5 Failure Interaction Domains; 1.6.5.1 Biaxial Domains; 1.6.5.2 Triaxial Domains; 1.7 Masonry Compression Strength; 1.7.1 Features of Compression Failure; 1.7.2 Valuation of Masonry Compression Strength

1.8 Masonry Tensile Strength1.9 Masonry Shear Strength; 1.10 Masonry Compression Strength in Presence of Skew Course Beds; 1.11 Masonry Deformations; 1.11.1 Masonry Elastic Modulus; 1.11.2 Masonry Deformation at the Onset of Blocks Failure; 1.11.3 Stress-Strain Diagram of the Compressed Masonry; 1.11.4 Mortar Creep; 1.11.4.1 The Concept of Memory in Constitutive Creep Models; 1.11.5 Mortar Shrinkage; References; 2 Fundamentals of Statics; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Heyman's Assumptions; 2.2.1 Neglecting Elastic Strains; 2.3 The Resistant Masonry Cell

2.3.1 Principle of Maximum Detachment Work2.3.2 Features of the Resistant Masonry Cell; 2.3.2.1 Stability; 2.3.2.2 Reversibility; 2.4 The Masonry Continuum; 2.4.1 Extension to Continuum of Heyman Assumptions; 2.4.2 The Crack Opening; 2.4.3 Compatibility Conditions on the Loads; 2.4.4 The Boundary and the Inside of the Cracked Body; 2.4.5 Compatibility Conditions on Strains and Stresses; 2.4.6 Lacking of Load Diffusion; 2.4.7 Specifications to One-Dimensional Systems; 2.4.8 Indeformable Masonry Structures; 2.5 Equilibrium and Compatibility; 2.5.1 Principle of Virtual Displacements

2.5.2 Existence of Admissible Equilibrium States2.5.3 No-Existence of Self-equilibrated Stresses in Deformable Structures; 2.5.4 Indeformable Structures: Statically Indeterminate Behaviour; 2.5.5 Admissible Equilibrium in One-Dimensional Systems; 2.5.6 Admissible Equilibrium of Elastic no Tension One-Dimensional Systems; 2.5.7 Weight and Live Loads; 2.6 Mechanism State; 2.7 Collapse State; 2.7.1 Definitions; 2.7.2 The Static Theorem; 2.7.3 The Kinematic Theorem; 2.7.4 Uniqueness of the Collapse Multiplier; 2.7.5 Indeformable Systems. Lack of Collapse