The Historical and Masonry Structures (www.hms.civil.uminho.pt) at ISISE, University of Minho, will be opening soon two PhD grants on Masonry Structures. If you are interested in any of this positions, please send your résumé and indicate your subject preference to Prof. Paulo B. Lourenço (pbl@civil.uminho.pt) before the end of January.

The PhD grants will address: (1) Experimental characterization of the performance of mixed cement-lime mortars in structural masonry applications focusing on bond, restrained movements and earthquake engineering; (2) Application of numerical tools and development of design rules for seismic strengthening of masonry-concrete mixed buildings, using near surface mounted twisted steel bars and  shear walls tying.