“…nonlinear static analysis (Milani & Valente, 2015;D'Ayala & Ansal, 2012;Endo, et al, 2017). Very few papers directly compare experimental results with the numerical outcomes for entire URM buildings subjected to seismic loading (Betti, et al, 2014;Mandirola, et al, 2016;Kallioras, et al, 2019), and none of them makes use of detailed mesoscale descriptions. It is important thus to investigate the effectiveness of this latter approach, even with regard to the possibility of calibrating material parameters with standard experimental tests and the computational feasibility of modelling large number of degrees of freedom.…”