ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the long-lasting history of the masonry arch theory, the investigation of its dynamic behavior is a relatively issue, which is mostly focused on the analytical formulation of the single degree of freedom four-link rigid block mechanism. Due to the susceptibility of rigid bodies to base impulse excitation, the tests accounted for a set of windowed sine impulses that allowed computing a failure curve in the frequency-amplitude domain. Dealing with rigid blocks, a tilting test can be regarded as a first-order seismic assessment method to evaluate the collapse mechanism and the corresponding horizontal load multiplier. The chapter deals with the performance of a scaled arch assembled by dry-joint 3D printed voussoirs sub-jected to a windowed sine impulse. A feature tracking based measuring technique was employed to monitor the in-plane displacement history of selected points on each voussoir.
