Dr. Shaghayegh Karimzadeh Naghshineh has recently joined S4H group. Dr. Shaghayegh acquired her PhD from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Her specialties

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 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