Dry stone masonry retaining walls (DSRWs) are made of rubble stones assembled without mortar. This vernacular technique has allowed the building of an enormous amount

The S4H team has released the second newsletter of the STAND4HERITAGE project, which highlights the progress of the S4H project from 10/2021 to 09/2022. The

Many variables influence the seismic behaviour of masonry structures. However, few researchers investigated the influence of such geometrical and mechanical parameters by using more than

Mr. Daniel Caicedo from Venezuela recently joined the S4H team as a PhD student. Daniel received the BSc degree in Civil Engineering in 2017 from

Dr Vasco Bernardo has recently joined the S4H Team as Postdoctoral Researcher. He is from Lisbon and his expertise focuses on the Seismic Vulnerability and

The S4H team participated in the 3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology (3ECEES), which was held between the 4th and 9th of September

The S4H team participated in the CMN2022 Congress on Numerical Methods in engineering, which was held between the 12th and 14th of September in Gran

Members of the S4H team have recently published a new paper in the journal of Nonlinear Dynamics. The paper focuses on the chattering behaviour of

The first tests on the brand new 1D-movement shaking-table are now being carried out at UMimho. Its overall specifications are: an effective squared area of

Ancient masons demonstrated mastery to build robust masonry structures by arranging chaotic masonry patterns using raw materials such as irregular stones. In this work, we

The S4H team recently published a new paper in the Construction and Building Material Journal. This research focuses on the study of the pseudo-static load