Up-to-date masonry construction requires the highest competence in design and calculation of structures in seismic zones.
To assist and support the designer in this task, S.T.A. DATA offers 3Muri Project, developed specifically for masonry.
In fact, it is not a generic Finite Element software adapted for masonry structures; 3Muri Project was born out of specific research for these structures and captures all their characteristics to achieve safe and reliable results.
Adaptable to both new and historic single or aggregate buildings of all sizes, 3Muri Project performs the function of making them solid and safe even in the event of seismic events. An indispensable software, now so ingrained in the design culture that it is now in its thirteenth version.
Its trump card? The innovative FME (Frame by Macro Elements) calculation method.
To develop it, we collaborated with the research team led by Prof. Sergio Lagomarsino, Professor of Construction Technology at the University of Genova together with other specialists (Prof. Andrea Penna and Eng. Alessandro Galasco of Eucentre in Pavia, and Eng. Serena Cattari of the University of Genoa)
The theoretical foundations of 3Muri Project are derived from laboratory experiments and analyses of real structures, which, coupled with a system of modelling and consulting of the results, make 3Muri Project a software at the top of its class.
Validation comes from numerous national and international universities and research centres, which chose 3Muri Project to carry out tests. The result? Total efficiency and reliability, deduced from the positive comparison between the seismic effects on real structures damaged by recent earthquakes (L’Aquila and Emilia) and numerical results.
The numerous configurations in which 3Muri Project is offered meet all the needs of designers, from the most complex to the simplest structures.