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

After having designed it a few months ago, the S4H team recently installed a large settlement table for experimental testing. The table is 1m x

The S4H team recently presented the ongoing study on WP1 in the “Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS)” workshop. COSMOS workshop was

Mr. Angel just arrived from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) where he finished his second M.Sc., to join the S4H team as s Ph.D. student. Christiam’s

S4H team members recently presented their research work in the 2022 (April 4-8, 2022, Guimarães, Portugal) peer-review meeting of the Repair and Retrofitting component of

The Historical and Masonry Structures (HMS) group of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, Portugal, plans to open

Dry-joint assemblages are common in the masonry built heritage. In addition, many laboratory tests on masonry structures use dry-joint specimens to simplify and fasten the

In the last decade several researchers proposed advanced analysis methods for the preventive assessment of heritage buildings. The literature analysis underlines how the DMEM approach

The European Union founded SAFEWAY project is organizing a Workshop on solutions for long-term resilience of infrastructure assets with numerous interesting presentations and discussions. Among

In the field of masonry, many researchers use numerical approaches to model the behaviour of the whole structure. Classically, there are three different approaches which