Damage Detection, Quantification and Modelling in Masonry Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Masonry structures represent a large percentage of the existing building stock of residential, vernacular and monumental architecture. This building stock is often located in regions featuring tectonic earthquakes, induced seismicity and soil subsidence. These effects can be detrimental to the aesthetic value, resilience and structural stability of masonry structures through the accumulation and propagation of structural damage. Effective intervention on these structures requires that sustained damage not only be successfully detected, but also rationally quantified.

Damage monitoring and inspection tools for masonry are abundant in engineering practice and research literature, making use of both established and emerging technology and methods. Photogrammetry, laser scanning, digital image correlation, acoustic emission and dynamic identification are but a few techniques used for the detection of damage arising in masonry structures under mechanical loading, both in the field and in the lab. However, the quantification of detected damage in terms relevant for structural analysis, namely for the calculation of stiffness and capacity reduction at the material or structural element level, remains tentative and applied in case-by-case instances.

This Special Issue aims at compiling and disseminating new advances and applications in damage detection and non-linear analysis of masonry structures. We invite contributions in damage detection, quantification and documentation, detailed case studies and advances in nonlinear analysis for decisively promoting research related to structural assessment and analysis of damaged masonry structures.

Submitted papers will undergo rigorous peer review with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of all research outcomes.

Dr. Anastasios Drougkas
Dr. Savvas Saloustros
Guest Editors

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