Stone masonry walls of ancient buildings have reasonable resistance to vertical loads but
lower resistance to shear forces and reduced tensile strength. However, to achieve such …

This article concerns the results of a structural strengthening solution for rubble stone
masonry walls. The strengthening involved inserting three-dimensional steel ties through the …

This article addresses the results of a structural strengthening solution for rubble stone
masonry walls. The strengthening includes inserting three-dimensional steel ties across the …

Stone masonry is one of the oldest and most worldwide building techniques. The important
need to preserve the valuable heritage and its history leads to identify and know the …

The study of stone masonry buildings is a topic of great concern among the scientific
community. This concern comes mainly from the need and interest in preserving the large …

In Lisbon and other southern European cities, old masonry buildings are generally exposed
to a very high seismic risk due to high probability of earthquake occurrence. In order to …

This paper refers to the results of a research project carried out at Nova University of Lisbon
(Pinho [8]), where several experimental models of rubble stone masonry walls were …

Multi-leaf masonry walls are very common in historical constructions and have been
primarily designed to resist vertical static loads. Recent earthquakes have shown their high …

A research project on the displacement capacity of contemporary unreinforced masonry
(URM) walls is underway at the Institute of Structural Engineering of ETH Zurich. The …

The paper summarizes the results of an experimental research carried out on three-leaf
masonry walls of typical granite stone constructions from the North of Portugal. The research …