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Maria Giovanna Masciotta and Paulo B. Lourenço
The preservation and seismic risk mitigation of built cultural heritage is considered today as a major priority in the international political agenda. Among the great variety of heritage structures spread worldwide, masonry towers belong to one of the mo...
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Manuela Scamardo, Marco Zucca, Pietro Crespi, Nicola Longarini and Sara Cattaneo
Throughout the last few decades, the scientific community has paid great attention to the structural safety of historical masonry constructions, which have high vulnerability with respect to seismic activities. Masonry towers are very widespread in Italy...
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Ilaria Capanna, Riccardo Cirella, Angelo Aloisio, Rocco Alaggio, Franco Di Fabio and Massimo Fragiacomo
Masonry towers, located in seismic zones, are vulnerable and prone to damages up to compromise their stability. The scatter of data on the mechanical properties of masonry, geometry and boundary conditions determine a lack of building knowledge on their ...
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Rafael Shehu
Seismic assessment is a paramount issue and a valuable instrument towards the conservation of vulnerable structures in seismic prone regions. The past seismic events have highlighted the vulnerability of masonry towers that is exhibited by severe structu...
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Arianna Pavia, Fabrizio Scozzese, Enrica Petrucci and Alessandro Zona
Masonry towers are part of a valuable architectural heritage characterizing the landscape of many historical areas. These towers are vulnerable structures that are prone to earthquake damage. Hence, the design of effective seismic upgrading interventions...
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Emmanouil-Georgios Kouris, Leonidas-Alexandros S. Kouris, Avraam A. Konstantinidis, Chris G. Karayannis and Elias C. Aifantis
The seismic response of five cultural heritage towers erected between the 10th and 19th century AD are investigated herein. Firstly, their architectural and modal characteristics were studied in the light of seismic events that hit the monuments. There e...
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Amedeo Manuello Bertetto, Davide Masera and Alberto Carpinteri
The Acoustic Emission (AE) technique can be used to perform structural monitoring of historical buildings including tall masonry towers. In addition, the AE data detected on the structure, during the earthquake activity, can be used to discriminate fores...
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Antonella Saisi and Carmelo Gentile
Historical masonry towers are relevant architectural heritage often in a strategic position within city centres. Their height and position require specific controls in order to define the state of preservation. The paper describes the investigation proce...
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