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

The S4H group presented its research with title “Seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry structures: a coupled mesoscale-DMEM approach”. This work mainly aims to: i) apply the DMEM approach by adopting a mesh representation consistent with real masonry patterns and ii) evaluate what phenomenon
affects the structural response. Novelties of the study include the application of the mesoscale masonry irregular pattern representation in DMEM for simulating unreinforced masonry structures and numerical investigations of the phenomenon that affects the structural response when mesoscale representation is adopted.

The conference paper is available for interested readers here.