Seismic Vulnerability of Historical Structures: Damage State of the Abruzzo (Italy) Churches in the Sequence of the April 2009 Earthquake

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 765-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Silva ◽  
Catarina Q. Costa ◽  
Francesca Da Porto ◽  
Maria Rosa Valluzzi ◽  
Claudio Modena
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Seismic Event ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Damage State ◽  
Damage Survey ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Statistical Work

Each earthquake represents a particular moment in the history of the affected region. The seismicity in Italy reaches frequently high values, what makes it a country particularly affected by this kind of natural disasters. Historical constructions (in particular masonry ones) are structures that show a high vulnerability to the type of loads introduced in the sequence of a seismic event. This paper focus on the effects of the 6th of April 2009 earthquake, that affected the region of Abruzzo (Italy), over the historical buildings of the region, in particular churches, by establishing a set of different objectives directed to the understanding of their structural behavior and to the assessment of the extent of post seismic damage in this structures. During the emergency period that followed the earthquake, many churches and other historical constructions (towers, walls, palaces, etc…) were surveyed, according to the official 1st level damage survey forms for Cultural Heritage (C.H.), by the workgroup of the University of Padova (UNIPD). The information collected from these surveys was later inserted and organized in a database. A statistical work is presented, illustrating the referred information and focusing on the data related with the damage assessment of the considered monuments. This work presents an intuitive overview of the seismic effects over the surveyed churches, allowing not only to better understand the response of these structures to this particular action, but also correlating the earthquake data with its effects on the churches.

Dynamic Behavior of a Historical Building

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 659-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Rinaldis ◽  
Paolo Clemente ◽  
Giacomo Buffarini
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Behavior ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Structural Systems ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Structural History ◽  
History Of

Given the particular difficulty in classifying and defining the characteristics of the structural systems of historical buildings, especially when they are part of complex historical constructions, the vulnerability study efforts becomes significantly more difficult than the study of regular modern structural systems. Furthermore, old buildings may have been altered repeatedly over time, may be founded on older buildings that got buried over and could be connected one to the others. This will cause dynamic interactions with other buildings or sub-structures during an earthquake. Therefore, the particular architectural and structural history of each structure adds uncertainties in the assessment of its seismic vulnerability. In this paper the dynamic response of CEDRAV building, part of the historical centre of Cerreto di Spoleto (Italy), is analyzed, by means of the data recorded by several temporary deployments of velocimeters. The complexity in assessing seismic behavior of the historical built environments is pointed out and so the dynamic interaction with adjacent buildings.

scholarly journals Seismic Vulnerability of Arches, Vaults and Domes in Historical Buildings

2016 ◽  
pp. 101-144
Author(s):  
Tariq Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Seismic Assessment ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Structural Behaviour ◽  
Seismic Effects ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Fired Bricks ◽  
And Performance

Arches, vaults and domes are common features in the cultures of old civilizations. They were usually made of sun-dried bricks, fired bricks or stones with different types of mortar. The majority of these components are vulnerable to seismic effects. Furthermore, the thrust actions transmitted by arches, vaults and domes to walls and piers usually cause damage to the supporting walls or piers. The present chapter discusses the structural behaviour and performance of these elements in past earthquakes and reviews the numerical models used for the seismic assessment of these elements. Furthermore, different damage assessment approaches are reviewed and suggestions are made on further research.

Seismic Vulnerability of Arches, Vaults and Domes in Historical Buildings

2015 ◽  
pp. 401-447
Author(s):  
Tariq Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Seismic Assessment ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Structural Behaviour ◽  
Seismic Effects ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Fired Bricks ◽  
And Performance

Arches, vaults and domes are common features in the cultures of old civilizations. They were usually made of sun-dried bricks, fired bricks or stones with different types of mortar. The majority of these components are vulnerable to seismic effects. Furthermore, the thrust actions transmitted by arches, vaults and domes to walls and piers usually cause damage to the supporting walls or piers. The present chapter discusses the structural behaviour and performance of these elements in past earthquakes and reviews the numerical models used for the seismic assessment of these elements. Furthermore, different damage assessment approaches are reviewed and suggestions are made on further research.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

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