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Structural health monitoring of the retrofitting process, characterization and reliability analysis of a masonry heritage construction

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In the last decades, heritage constructions (HC) had been rehabilitated and inserted in functional areas of cities, therefore, the necessity for keeping them structurally safe and functional is high. Therefore, the employment of structural health monitoring (SHM) and operational modal analysis (OMA) techniques can be worthy alternatives for structural characterization and safety management. However, in the literature few cases of SHM of HC are reported, and guidelines or recommendations specifically for safety assessment of HC is an effort still undergoing. Thus, the present work describes the strategies for SHM and structural characterization of a Portuguese stone heritage construction, namely Santo António Church and introduces a new approach for heritage assessment so-called Reliability Analysis Based on Vibrational Measures (RABVIM). The results showed that SHM allowed to guarantee the efficiency level of the retrofitting measures carried out, while OMA provided useful information on the structure modal parameters, under operational loading actuation, apart from the data for reliability assessment. Finally, this work demonstrates that RABVIM can be an interesting and useful tool to support the safety assessment of HC.

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Esequiel Mesquita acknowledge CAPES through the Fellowship Number 10023/13-5, CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil. Paulo Antunes acknowledge the funding allocated by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to I3N through strategic Project UID/CTM/50025/2013. The authors acknowledge Sir. Valdemar Luis for the technical support and Regional Direction of Culture of North (DRCN).

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  1. CONSTRUCT-LESE, Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), University of Porto, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Esequiel Mesquita, António Arêde, Ruben Silva, Patrício Rocha, Ana Gomes, Nuno Pinto & Humberto Varum

  2. Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, School of Technology and Management, 4900-348, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Patrício Rocha

  3. I3N and Department of Physic and Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro, Campus of Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Paulo Antunes

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This study was funded by Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007457—CONSTRUCT—Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction funded by FEDER funds through COMPETE2020—Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI)—and by national funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

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Mesquita, E., Arêde, A., Silva, R. et al. Structural health monitoring of the retrofitting process, characterization and reliability analysis of a masonry heritage construction. J Civil Struct Health Monit 7, 405–428 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-017-0232-9

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