The preservation and seismic risk mitigation of built cultural heritage is considered today as
a major priority in the international political agenda. Among the great variety of heritage …

Unreinforced stone masonry (URSM) buildings without a box-like behaviour are very
vulnerable to out-of-plane failure modes in seismic prone areas. These may involve partial …

Discrete element models are a powerful tool for the analysis of masonry, given their ability to
represent the discontinuous nature of these structures, and to simulate the most common …

Masonry walls exhibit low tensile strength and high material heterogeneity, which makes
them especially vulnerable against cyclic loading conditions, such as those typical in …

This paper presents numerical investigations using the mesoscale approach coupled with
the discrete macro-element approach for masonry structures, ie, each macro-element …

This paper presents a methodology aimed at addressing the rapid post-earthquake damage
localization and quantification tasks in heritage masonry structures, based on non-linear …

In the seismic analysis of unreinforced masonry (URM) structures, the modeling of out‐of‐
plane (OOP) modes and their mechanical interaction with in‐plane (IP) loaded components …

Abstract Classical Finite-Element and Discrete-Element strategies are expensive to carry
when analysing masonry structures in the inelastic range, under a seismic excitation, and …

Despite the high vulnerability of historic structures to earthquakes, the approaches for
evaluating seismic demand and capacity still appear inadequate and there is little …

Although mainland Portugal has been spared from large magnitude earthquakes in recent
years, it faces a threat due to the presence of several active fault systems. In such a …