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SUMMARY:Masonry made sexy again: High level research\, professional practi
 ce and innovation
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Paulo LOURENÇO\, University of Minho\, Portugal\nThe ev
 olution of structural masonry is briefly reviewed in the presentation\, fr
 om old thrust line behavior to modern global behavior using shear walls.\n
 Modern societies understand built cultural heritage as a landmark of cultu
 re and diversity. Only during the last decades the idea that ancient build
 ings could be conserved and reused became appealing. Large investments hav
 e been concentrated in this field\, leading to impressive developments in 
 the areas of inspection\, non-destructive testing\, monitoring and structu
 ral analysis of historical constructions. These developments\, and recent 
 guidelines for reuse and conservation\, allow for safer\, economical and m
 ore adequate remedial measures. The presentation first addresses the issue
 s of the methodology to adopt\, of different cases studies and of present 
 challenges.\nBio : Full professor in the Department of Civil Engineering (
 DEC)\, University of Minho\, Guimarães\, Portugal\, and coordinator of th
 e Group of Historical and Masonry Structures. Head of the Institute in Sus
 tainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering\, with current contra
 cted funding of 7.5 Million Euro and 100 PhD students. He supervised 35 Ph
 D theses and is author of more than 1000 publications\, with an h-index of
  24. He is experienced in the fields of NDT\, advanced experimental and nu
 merical techniques\, innovative strengthening techniques and earthquake en
 gineering. He has worked as a consultant on several projects\, including m
 ore than fifty monuments in different countries and has been responsible f
 or several R&D projects with the masonry industry.\nFor modern structural 
 masonry\, the use of unreinforced\, confined and reinforced masonry is bri
 efly addressed\, discussing the influence of seismic hazard and presenting
  different solutions adopted in developed countries. Recent research on bu
 ilding systems for modern masonry structures is presented\, together with 
 conclusions on the performance of the system for in-plane lateral loading.
  Finally\, the performance of masonry infills and recent shaking table tes
 ts in Portugal are also presented.
LOCATION:GC C330 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=GCC330
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