Comprehensive FE numerical insight into Finale Emilia Castle behavior under 2012 Emilia Romagna seismic sequence: Damage causes and seismic vulnerability mitigation hypothesis

Assessment of seismic behaviour of heritage masonry buildings using numerical modelling

“…Furthermore, many historical and architectural structures in most of the Italian cities are currently used with different functions respect to the original ones. They have also suffered either housing or services and some structural modifications, made through the centuries, which do not allow an unequivocal assessment of their actual vulnerability [2,6,7]. Furthermore, they are typically no longer used as monasteries, as churches, etc., a fact that changes the exposure aspects.…”

Seismic Assessment of Cultural Heritage: Nonlinear 3d Analyses of “Santa Maria Della Carità” in Ascoli Piceno

“…The seismic vulnerability assessment of historical constructions with great architectural value, like churches, is of strategic importance considering the richness of the European and Italian architectural heritage [1,2]. The earthquakes that hit Italy last years (L'Aquila 2009, Emilia Romagna 2012, Centre-Italy 2016) confirmed the high vulnerability of this type of structures [3][4][5], and also the recent advances in structural assessment of this building typology confirm the centrality of the matter [6,7].…”

Earthquake response of heavily damaged historical masonry mosques after restoration

“…Historical masonry arch bridges (Milani and Lourenço, 2012;Altunisik et al, 2015), towers (Peña et al, 2010), minarets and mosques (Seker et al, 2014), churches (Brandonisio et al, 2013), buildings and walls (Shariq et al, 2008;Lin et al, 2012;Parisi et al, 2013), and chimneys (Minghini et al, 2014) have all been investigated by different authors. Very rigid structures such as castles, fortresses and bastions have been investigated in terms of static and dynamic structural behavior (Betti et al, 2011;Tiberti et al, 2016).…”