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    Seismic Assessment of Earthen Structures

    Earth is an ancient construction material that is attracting numerous scientific investigations due to the sustainable characteristics of this material and the significant heritage of existing earth constructi...

    Quoc-Bao Bui, Ranime El-Nabouch… in Testing and Characterisation of Earth-base… (2022)

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    Mechanical Characterization of Adobe Bricks

    The mechanical characterization of adobe bricks is an important first step in the study of the behaviour of adobe masonry. For this reason, in the last decades, different authors have conducted research on the...

    Dora Silveira, Cristina Oliveira… in Structural Characterization and Seismic Re… (2021)

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    Mechanical Characterization of Adobe Masonry

    The characterization of the mechanical properties and behaviour of adobe masonry is fundamental for the understanding of the structural behaviour of adobe constructions. Thus, in the last decades, experimental...

    Cristina Oliveira, Dora Silveira… in Structural Characterization and Seismic Re… (2021)

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    Dynamic characterisation of a historic bell-tower using a sensitivity-based technique for model tuning

    The most relevant results of the vibration-based investigations performed on a historic masonry tower in Italy namely the Santa Maria a Vico bell-tower is here presented. The first part of the study involves p...

    Massimiliano Ferraioli, Lorenzo Miccoli… in Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitor… (2018)

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    Dynamic characterisation and seismic assessment of medieval masonry towers

    The paper investigates the dynamic characterisation, the numerical model tuning and the seismic risk assessment of two monumental masonry towers located in Italy: the Capua Cathedral bell tower and the Aversa ...

    Massimiliano Ferraioli, Lorenzo Miccoli, Donato Abruzzese… in Natural Hazards (2017)

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    Development of partial safety factors for earth block masonry

    The main aim of the research was the development of a first valid database for material parameters of earth block masonry (EBM) with particular regard to statistical characteristics. A solid database is needed...

    Philipp Müller, Lorenzo Miccoli, Patrick Fontana… in Materials and Structures (2016)

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    Static behaviour of rammed earth: experimental testing and finite element modelling

    The paper presents an experimental program aiming at assessing the mechanical performance of rammed earth walls, namely under compression and shear loading. Axial compression and diagonal compression tests wer...

    Lorenzo Miccoli, Daniel V. Oliveira, Rui A. Silva, Urs Müller… in Materials and Structures (2015)

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    Strategies for High Risk Reduction and Management as Global Responsibility

    In the last decades it has been necessary to face emergencies due to big crisis events caused by anthropic and natural events. In particular modern technological systems have reached such a high level of compl...

    Lorenzo Miccoli, Francesca Destefano in Transition Studies Review (2010)

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    Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage: A Global Responsibility. Sichuan Towers Case Study

    This paper has been developed in the framework of a larger research program, in which the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Tsinghua University and Yangzhou University are jointly involved to study and preserv...

    Marta Bordignon, Lisa Corsi, Diego De Gasperis, Beibei Liu… in Transition Studies Review (2009)