Seismic analysis of slender monumental structures: Current strategies and challenges

MG Masciotta, PB Lourenço - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The preservation and seismic risk mitigation of built cultural heritage is considered today as
a major priority in the international political agenda. Among the great variety of heritage …

[HTML][HTML] Model updating of a masonry tower based on operational modal analysis: The role of soil-structure interaction

A Shabani, M Feyzabadi, M Kioumarsi - Case Studies in Construction …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vibration-based finite element model (FEM) updating of cultural heritage assets is gaining
so much attraction these days since destructive tests are usually not allowed to be …

Seismic assessment of interacting structural units in complex historic masonry constructions by nonlinear static analyses

S Degli Abbati, AM D'Altri, D Ottonelli… - Computers & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The damage occurred due to past earthquakes highlighted that the seismic behavior of
historic masonry structures characterized by an aggregation of units with an own seismic …

Earthquake-induced damage localization in an historic masonry tower through long-term dynamic monitoring and FE model calibration

I Venanzi, A Kita, N Cavalagli, L Ierimonti… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents an enhanced version and the validation of a recently proposed
methodology for earthquake-induced damage detection and localization in masonry towers …

Influence of soil-structure interaction on the site-specific seismic demand to masonry towers

F de Silva - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Joint analysis of hazard and fragility is becoming a widespread and unavoidable tool to
estimate losses caused by earthquakes. The application of such analysis to buildings on soft …

Bayesian-based model updating using natural frequency data for historic masonry towers

S Monchetti, C Viscardi, M Betti, G Bartoli - Probabilistic Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Model updating procedures are commonly used to identify numerical models of a
structure to be subsequently used for reliable assessment of its behaviour under …

Foundation impedance functions from full-scale soil-structure interaction tests

C Amendola, F De Silva, A Vratsikidis, D Pitilakis… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper presents and discusses the dynamic foundation impedance functions calculated
from full-scale field tests on soil-structure interaction at the prototype facility of EuroProteas …

A procedure for the seismic risk assessment of the cultural heritage

M Diaferio, D Foti, MF Sabbà, M Lerna - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2021 - Springer
In the last decades, several researchers have proposed procedures for the evaluation of the
seismic risk of buildings with different structural typologies. The main aim of these studies is …

Fast vulnerability evaluation of masonry towers by means of an interactive and adaptive 3D kinematic limit analysis with pre-assigned failure mechanisms

G Milani - International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The paper presents an interactive kinematic limit analysis approach that can be handled
also by inexperienced users for a reliable evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of masonry …

Numerical insights on the seismic risk of confined masonry towers

G Bartoli, M Betti, L Galano, G Zini - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
This study analyses the seismic risk of a confined historic masonry tower located in Italy
(San Gimignano) critically discussing the multilevel assessment path proposed by the Italian …