Recent Italian earthquakes have underlined the need for wide monitoring and safety
assessment of architectonical heritage. This has emerged also from requirements of the new …

The paper presents a numerical study for the seismic assessment of the St James Church in
Christchurch, New Zealand affected by the recent 2011 earthquake and subsequent …

As construções em alvenaria representam uma parte importante do legado construído e
cultural do passado, mas também uma solução sustentável para o futuro. Esta é a principal …

The dynamics of a medieval church, the S. Maria in Portuno's church, subjected to seismic
loadings has been analyzed by using LMGC90, a distinct element code which implements …

Preservation of historical constructions with high cultural heritage value is an actual theme in
modern societies as these constructions play an important role in the industry of tourism and …

This study addresses the failures in the Church of Baldornon, in Gijón, Province of Asturias,
Spain, and proposes a retrofitting procedure based on the design of experiments (DOE) …

The Masonry structures are complicated structures and there is, currently, a lack of
knowledge and information concerning the behaviour of their structural system under …

In this paper cooperation between restoration and retrofitting of monuments after a disaster
such as earthquake was evaluated. On 31 March 2006, a series of earthquakes with the …

This paper presents a numerical study on the seismic assessment and reinforcement of St
James Church, affected by the 2011 New Zealand Earthquake. Numerical analyses were …