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A new method of creating constitutive model of masonry is reported in this work. The model is not an explicit orthotropic elastic-plastic one, but with an artificial neural network (ANN) giving an implicit constitutive function. It relates the new state of generalised stresses Σn+1 with the old state Σn and with an increment of generalised strains ΔE (plane-stress conditions are assumed). The first...