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Seismic Behavior of Ancient Monuments: From Collapse Observation to Permanent Monitoring

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Masonry failure; Monumental structures; Seismic damage; Seismic vulnerability; Structural analysis; Structural health monitoring

Introduction

The earthquake occurred on April 6, 2009, in Italy at L’Aquila has been a catastrophic event for both the city and the University of L’Aquila (Ceci et al. 2010). Since then, numerous scientific activities have accompanied both the immediate recovery and the long reconstruction program in different fields of earthquake science and engineering. In particular, the development of new systems and technologies for both understanding and enhancing the structural behavior of significant historical palaces and churches, densely populating the L’Aquila city center, has attracted the attention of specialists and researchers coming from a broadband spectrum of scientific disciplines. This rich multidisciplinary approach has permitted the development of a new paradigm in the preparatory works necessary for planning the retrofitting and the...

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  1. DICEAA - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile-Architettura, Ambientale, CERFIS - Centro di Ricerca e Formazione in Ingegneria Sismica, University of L’Aquila, via G. Gronchi 18, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Vincenzo Gattulli & Francesco Potenza

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  1. Vincenzo Gattulli
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Correspondence to Vincenzo Gattulli .

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Gattulli, V., Potenza, F. (2015). Seismic Behavior of Ancient Monuments: From Collapse Observation to Permanent Monitoring. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_85

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