Securing the future of masonry and historical structures across the globe. DIANA is used to analyze masonry structures 100-1000 years old, ensuring that future generations can continue to enjoy their architectural artistry and splendor.
Masonry structures are often either smaller private dwellings or larger historic structures representing a country’s history. While iconic historic structures often provide a valuable source of income and private dwellings are of extreme importance to their owners, there is rarely a large budget to ensure their upkeep. DIANA provides a suite of unique analysis capabilities and material models in a non-intrusive and cost-effective manner, enabling you to analyze and make recommendations for the renovation, retrofitting, and future structural stability of these buildings.
For historic structures, original construction data is rarely available, there is often a lack of understanding of the materials with which they were built, of the construction sequence, or of events that may have occurred during the life of the structure
For the analysis of stone, brick or masonry buildings, DIANA provides you with the ability to analyze in detail as a whole, or in part – under standard – or extreme loading, such as earthquakes.
Detailed reports can be easily produced to form your recommendation for a modern masonry structure of just a few years – now subject to additional loads. Or, a historic building which has undergone changes throughout its lifetime – and is likely to incur more in the future.
Meso-level modeling
At meso-level bricks are modeled with continuum elements and joints with interface elements
Macro-level modeling
Mass & damping
Reinforcement modeling
