Structural health monitoring and management of cultural heritage structures: a state-of-the-art review

M Rossi, D Bournas - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the urgency to protect and upgrade cultural heritage structures (CHS) has
become of primary importance due to their unique value and potential areas of impact …

Evolutionary numerical model for cultural heritage structures via genetic algorithms: a case study in central Italy

GP Salachoris, G Standoli, M Betti, G Milani… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper the actual dynamic behavior of the civic Clock tower of Rotella, a little village in
central Italy heavily damaged by the recent 2016 seismic sequence, is thoroughly …

Investigations of masonry churches seismic performance with numerical models: Application to a case study

M D'Amato, R Sulla - Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Recovering and preserving ancient churches is necessary to ensure the transmission of this
cultural heritage to the future generations. To this scope, it is necessary to evaluate their …

Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing school buildings

M Domaneschi, AZ Noori, MV Pietropinto… - Computers & …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a methodology to perform the seismic vulnerability assessment of
existing buildings. It starts with the acquisition of structural data from available construction …

Seismic damage assessment of a historic masonry building under simulated scenario earthquakes: A case study for Arge-Tabriz

N Hoveidae, A Fathi, S Karimzadeh - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2021 - Elsevier
Damage prediction of existing buildings against natural events is a challenge for engineers.
Although several approaches have been proposed in the bibliography for damage …

Fem model calibration of experimental environmental vibration tests on two churches hit by L'Aquila earthquake

A Formisano, G Di Lorenzo, L Krstevska… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The paper deals with the seismic investigation of two masonry churches, namely Visitazione
and San Giuliano, which are located in Poggio Picenze, a small town about 10 km far from …

Failure mechanism of historic churches in Gorj county for shallow seismic action

M Mosoarca, M Fofiu, I Onescu - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Two major shallow earthquakes hit Gorj county in Romania on the 13th and 14th of February
2023, one had a magnitude of ML= 5.2 at a depth of 17 km, while the second earthquake …

System identification for structural condition assessment: Application to critical neoclassical monuments in Nepal

D Gautam, R Adhikari, S Olafsson… - Engineering Failure …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents structural condition assessment of some critical neoclassical
monuments in Nepal using nonparametric and parametric system identification techniques …

Safety assessment of ancient buddhist pagoda induced by underpass metro tunnel blasting vibration

H Shi, N Jiang, C Zhou, Y Zhnag, Y Yao, W Zhou… - Engineering Failure …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the blasting excavation project of the subway tunnel in the urban area, ensuring the safety
of the surface buildings (structures) above the crossing area is the key concern. This paper …

The seismic vulnerability assessment of heritage buildings: a holistic methodology for masonry churches

L Diana, G Vaiano, A Formisano… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The seismic vulnerability assessment of monumental buildings is a complex task. Several
uncertainties mine the reliability of evaluations. Within historical buildings, churches appear …