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Nuno Mendes

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Design procedure for viscoelastic energy dissipation devices in seismic strengthening of unreinforced masonry buildings

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Dec 2025
Elesban Nochebuena-Mora, Nuno Mendes, Paulo B. Lourenço and José A. Covas
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Unreinforced masonry, Design procedure, Viscoelastic device, Passive Vibration Control, Strengthening technique, Out-of-plane response

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Geometric-nonlinear viscoelastic device (GNL-VED): an energy dissipation device to reduce the out-of-plane motion of unreinforced masonry walls

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Dec 2025
Elesban Nochebuena-Mora, Nuno Mendes, Paulo B. Lourenço and José A. Covas
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Seismic vibrations, geometric-nonlinear viscoelastic device, out-of-plane motion, energy dissipation device, unreinforced masonry buildings

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Experimental dynamic out-of-plane response of masonry buildings: Mechanism activation, progression, and collapse

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Feb 2026
Dario Vecchio, Babar Ilyas, Nuno Mendes and Paulo B. Lourenço
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Shake table tests, Out-Of-Plane (OOP) failure, Collapse mechanisms, Dry-stack, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) results