The Historical and Masonry Structures (HMS) group of the Institute of Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho (Portugal), plans to open
The S4H team is currently developing a tool to enable the fast generation of masonry specimens. This latter aims at helping any structural engineer or
Free rocking experiments have marked the beginning of the experimental campaign of the S4H project. The tests have been conducted using the granite blocks, while
The S4H team, in collaboration with Dr Marco Francesco Funari, have recently published an article in Applied Sciences, entitled “A Tool for the Rapid Seismic
The calcium-silicate blocks ordered from Xella arrived this week to the University. These specimens are homogeneous, contrasting with the granite specimens already ordered.This way we
The S4H Team team wishes you a lot of joy and happiness during this holiday season. May the upcoming year be full of new achievements that
A new six-camera Digital Image Correlation (DIC) system arrived at the UMinho laboratory last week. The Stand4Heritage project will use this technology to acquire and
The STAND4HERITAGE team will be presenting the project at an online mini-workshop this Thursday (10th December) at 10.30 am GMT. The team will introduce the
Computations in masonry structures: From the mesoscale to the super-large / super-complex. Professor Paulo B. Lourenço recently gave a very interesting online talk on masonry
A powerful earthquake of Mw=7.0 hit the Aegean Sea last Friday, causing more than 60 fatalities and severe damage to the building stock of both
The first granite specimens ordered from Granitos do Norte arrived at the university last Thursday. These blocks were first measured to verify that their dimensions
A very interesting meeting was held last week at the lab facilities of UMinho. The main focus of the meeting was (i) software development for
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