Historical and Masonry Structures
The group consists of 25 PhD members, led by Graça Vasconcelos and integrated in two clusters. Originally centred in “Historical”, i.e. existing buildings with cultural value, often referred to as architectural heritage (majority in masonry and timber, but also 20th century heritage), and “Masonry”, i.e. new masonry construction.
Overview
Group HMS - Historical Masonry
The group interests are wider, with relevant activity in timber structures, infrastructure management and geotechnical engineering. Conservation of the built heritage includes non-destructive testing and monitoring, advanced experimental characterization, sophisticated numerical simulation tools, earthquake engineering, repair and strengthening techniques, durability, management systems and life cycle analysis.
Re-use of structural masonry and timber aims at developing integral building solutions (all functional requirements) and modular solutions. Infrastructure management has a strong focus on assessment of bridges and transportation networks, including risk management and extreme events. Geotechnics has a focus on ground parameters and performance predictions, namely for rock masses, slope management and railways engineering.
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📣 Seminar | Digital Construction Intelligence: BIM & AI for Smart Inspection and Monitoring
Join us for a seminar by Dr. Si Van-Tien Tran (Catholic Kwandong University, Korea) on how BIM + AI can support smarter inspection, defect detection, and construction monitoring, including links to Digital Twin approaches.
🗓 Friday, 9 January | 14:00–15:00
📍 Meeting Room 1, Civil Engineering Department
All colleagues and students interested in BIM, AI, computer vision, IoT, monitoring, and digital transformation in construction are welcome.
#ISISE #HMS #RAMCI #BIM #ArtificialIntelligence #ConstructionTech #DigitalTwin #SmartMonitoring #Inspection #ComputerVision #IoT #CivilEngineering
🌟 NEW PAPER 🌟
📝 Eurocode Core Ontology: Building the semantic framework for structural design assistants
📓 Advanced Engineering Informatics
👩🏫 Agnieszka Jędrzejewska; Maria Laura Leonardi; Carlos Ramonell Cazador; José Granja; Rolando Chacón; Daniel V. Oliveira; Miguel Azenha
The paper presents the Eurocode Core Ontology (ECO), a modular and extensible semantic framework that formalizes key Eurocode concepts to enable machine-readable interpretation, automated reasoning, and intelligent compliance checking within digital engineering workflows. ECO captures core notions from Eurocode 0 (EN 1990) and models actions and partial factors from Eurocode 1 (EN 1991) through declarative rules, supporting semantic interoperability with BIM and other engineering tools. The approach is demonstrated through a practical case study—the design and verification of a reinforced concrete floor slab—showing how rule-based inference can support standards-based checks and BIM integration.
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📖 New publication!
🔬 Thermal properties of multi-purpose mortar mixtures: experimental characterization and influencing parameters
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/xkH77pG
❓ What are the thermal properties of multi-purpose mortars and the most critical parameters?
📚 Main contents:
- Thermal properties of mortars for different purposes, ranging from thermal rendering to structural composite applications
- Effects of lightweight aggregates, including bio-based materials, to identify key thermodynamic parameters
- Influence of thermal inertia on the transient and stationary responses of the materials
Authors: Luca Penazzato, Livia Tavares Cosentino, Chiara Turco, Ricardo Mateus, Daniel Oliveira
Journal of Building Engineering
From a collaboration between Functional Performance and Historical and Masonry Structures group members of ISISE!
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New paper from ISISE! 😊📃
Title: A band domain method for controlling numerical simulations of URM structures across modeling approaches
Authors: F. Parisse, S. Cattari, R. Marques, P. B. Lourenço
Journal: Engineering Structures
Download some free copies until December 7 from the link 👉
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#ISISE #HMS #urmstructures #finiteelementmodels #equivalentframemodels #resultinterpretation #banddomainmethod
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📢 Deadline Extended – ESREL 2026!
💡The abstract submission deadline for the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2026) has been extended to 16 November 2025!
Join experts, researchers, and professionals in Braga, Portugal (14–19 June 2026) to explore the latest advances in safety, reliability, and risk analysis.
👉 Submit your abstract: buff.ly/SJxn2lu
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