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    Experimental Characterization of Mechanical Behaviour of Existing Tabique Walls Under Compressive and Shear Loading

    The construction of old buildings made using tabique walls is one of the most relevant examples of vernacular architecture in Portugal. It exists throughout the country and is particularly relevant in the regi...

    José Padrão, António Arêde in Structural Analysis of Historical Construc… (2019)

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    Numerical analysis of the in-plane behaviour of three-leaf stone masonry panels consolidated with grout injection

    This paper presents the calibration procedures of a numerical model based on the results of uniaxial and shear-compression tests on three-leaf stone masonry panels in scale 1:1 and 2:3, both in original and in...

    Bruno Quelhas Silva, Athanasios Pappas in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (2017)

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    Characterization and Reinforcement of Stone Masonry Walls

    Stone masonry is one of the oldest “structural materials” known to man. It is made by the superposition of stones, mortar and, very often, with infill material between leaves. The components present complex li...

    Bruno Quelhas, Lorenzo Cantini in Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings (2014)

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    Ambient vibration testing and seismic analysis of a masonry chimney

    At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century there was a considerable development in Portugal, characterized by the flourishing of many industrial plants. Brick masonry chimneys repr...

    Valter Lopes, João Miranda Guedes, Esmeralda Paupério in Journal of Building Appraisal (2009)