Manifestations

Dear Colleague,

the WCCM XIV & ECCOMAS 2020 Congress (wccm-eccomas2020.org) will be held in Paris, France, July 19-24, 2020.

The contributions to this conference are mainly organised through mini-symposia, whereas each mini-symposium consists of one or more sessions of about 6 oral presentations each.  We are organising the Mini-symposium "MS281: MASONRY CONSTRUCTIONS " and we would like to cordially invite you to submit an abstract to this symposium.

This minisymposium aims to provide an outstanding opportunity for academic and scientists'communities and all experts alike to address technical advances and challenges in masonry analysis. Masonry structures, mainly existing constructions, constitute an important part of the international heritage such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, etc. Their degradation and aging raise many issues about preservation prediction methods and techniques. In order to provide reliable solutions, it is important to understand their mechanical, thermal and hydric behavior and couplings. However, the masonry complexity from the point of view of material and structure requires various analysis approaches, in particular experimental, numerical or theoretical methods.The proposed topics cover a wide range of scales from material to structure, while integrating architectural and construction aspects: Arches, Vaults, Domes, Walls, Bridges, Earth constructions... The used materials can be issued from natural origin (stones, earth,..), industrial material (cooked clay bricks..) and isalso an innovative material used for the repairing and rehabilitation of these constructions.

Based on your research activities and acknowledged reputation in this field, we feel the immense pleasure in inviting you to attend  this this Mini-symposium. We would be very glad if you could accept this invitation.

Please feel free to share this announcement with other researchers who may interested to participate in  this mini symposium. 

Instructions for the submission of abstracts can be found on the conference website: https://wccm-eccomas2020.org/frontal/Autor.asp

Looking forward to seeing you in Paris.

Best Regards,?

Frédéric Lebon¹, Paulo B. Lourenço², Elio Sacco³, Gabriele Milani⁴, Daniela Addessi⁵, 

Frédéric Dubois⁶, Maurizio Brocato⁷, Eric Vincens⁸, Fazia Fouchal⁹

 ¹LMA, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, Marseille, France 

²ISISE, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

³ University of Naples “Federico II”, Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture,  Naples, Italy, 

⁴Technical University of Milan - Politecnico di Milano,  Italy, 

⁵University of Rome Sapienza, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Rome, Italy, 

⁶LMGC, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil , Montpellier France 

⁷École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, PARIS, France   

⁸LTDS, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes, Ecole Centrale de Lyon,  France 

 ⁹GC2D, Laboratoire de Génie Civil, Diagnostic et Durabilité,  Université de Limoges, France