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Seismic Strengthening Strategies for Heritage Structures

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The global seismic behavior of historic masonry buildings is highly influenced by the integrity of the connections among vertical and horizontal structural elements, to ensure the so-called box behavior. This, providing the transfer of inertial and dynamic actions from elements working in flexure out-of-plane to elements working in in-plane shear, leads to a global response best suited to the strength capacity of the constitutive materials and hence enhanced performance and lower damage level. Notwithstanding the importance of connections’ integrity, analytical checks of existing connecting elements, or design of new elements to strengthen existing connections, are generally based on qualitative rules or simplified overall checks, rather than rigorous analytical approach. The “Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-Engineered Construction” were first published by the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) in 1986 specifically with the objective of...

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  1. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, G16b UCL Chadwick Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Dina D’Ayala

  2. Ziegert|Roswag|Seiler Architekten Ingenieure, Berlin, Germany

    Sara Paganoni

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  1. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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D’Ayala, D., Paganoni, S. (2014). Seismic Strengthening Strategies for Heritage Structures. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_199-1

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