Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions

This new edition of this book has been driven by the numerous recent developments of the research in the field, which it was necessary to recall in the text; the work of this new version allowed the revision of the writing with the correction of many misprints occurred during the proofreading of the previous edition. The new edition also has offered the opportunity to include, scattered in the various chapters, many refinements and improvements of the discussed topics, some of them here listed as follows: the collapse induced by the crushing of masonry in elements that cannot get deformed through mechanisms, as for instance in the platband arch…