M Valente, G Milani - Engineering Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
The behavior of eight historical masonry towers, located in the North-East region of Italy, is analyzed under horizontal loads by means of detailed 3D FE models. The geometry of the …
M Valente, G Milani - Construction and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
The seismic vulnerability assessment of eight historical masonry towers, located in the North- East region of Italy, is carried out by means of simplified approaches. Three-dimensional …
G Standoli, E Giordano, G Milani… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Central Italy Earthquakes occurred in 2016 pointed out once more the vulnerability of Cultural Heritage (CH), especially for what concerns bell-towers since they …
A series of simplified approaches are evaluated for their effectiveness to estimate the seismic vulnerability of historical masonry towers. First, collapse loads are evaluated on …
The masonry building Heritage embraces a large variety of structural typologies, including churches, bridges, arenas, theatres, portals, castles, temples, and towers. The structural …
M Acito, M Bocciarelli, C Chesi, G Milani - Engineering Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
The paper presents the final results of a wide numerical campaign conducted by the authors at the Technical University of Milan in cooperation with the Italian Cultural and Architectural …
Ten existing masonry towers, located in the coastal Po Valley (Italy), are analysed in the presence of seismic excitations. They show some affinities which justify a comparative …
G Bartoli, M Betti, A Vignoli - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2016 - Springer
After a brief introduction on the research project RiSEM (Seismic Risk of Monumental Buildings), the paper discusses on the seismic assessment of historic masonry towers …
A comparative numerical study on a 12th-century masonry tower located in northern Italy is described. To assess the safety of the tower under seismic loads, different numerical …