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
Our new visiting professor Dr Mislav Stepinac recently shared with us some of the lessons learned following his experience of conducting a rapid assessment of
The study of the material that will be used for shaking table tests and the preparation of the equipment setup in the laboratory continues. In
The STAND4Heritage project has almost reached one year of life. In few months, the team will have numerous scientific results to share with anyone interested.
50’s day free access link for the publication “Learning from failure: Damage and failure of masonry structures, after the 2017 Lesvos earthquake (Greece)“ The scientific
LEST’s main lab is under renovation in order to prepare for the arrival of the shaking table.The work areas were all redesigned with new markings
A new researcher has recently arrived in UMinho who will be part of the team for the next two months as a visiting member for