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During the structural restoration of a highly damaged XVIII century building complex, the former military quarters "Caserma Principe Amedeo", in the city of Nola, near Naples, Italy, the reconstruction of some vaults was needed, matching the specific geometry of the existing vaults. This implied extensive and in-depth historical investigations on the construction techniques of that period to reconstruct the vaults following the design rules, the manufacturing techniques and the materials of XVIII century in that area. A non linear finite element analysis of the vault was performed with reference to the effective geometrical and mechanical properties. The numerical modelling was validated by means of a real scale prototype vault pilot test, and two onsite tests on existing vaults. This investigation made it possible the re-design of an architectural layout that appears to be neat and functional to the future building utilization. It was possible to restore construction techniques applicable to materials and geometries perfectly correlated to the original design. This allows the reconstructed part of the building to smoothly fade into the architectural equilibrium of the original structure.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 106 PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY Edited by: Paper 113 Reconstruction of XVIII Century Ribbed Vault: Experimental Tests and Numerical Analyses G. Manfredi and G.P. Lignola Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy doi:10.4203/ccp.106.113 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper G. Manfredi, G.P. Lignola, "Reconstruction of XVIII Century Ribbed Vault: Experimental Tests and Numerical Analyses", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 113, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.113 Keywords: in-situ tests, reconstruction, structural assessment, vaults, vulnerability.. Summary During the structural restoration of a highly damaged XVIII century building complex, the former military quarters "Caserma Principe Amedeo", in the city of Nola, near Naples, Italy, the reconstruction of some vaults was needed, matching the specific geometry of the existing vaults. This implied extensive and in-depth historical investigations on the construction techniques of that period to reconstruct the vaults following the design rules, the manufacturing techniques and the materials of XVIII century in that area. A non linear finite element analysis of the vault was performed with reference to the effective geometrical and mechanical properties. The numerical modelling was validated by means of a real scale prototype vault pilot test, and two onsite tests on existing vaults. This investigation made it possible the re-design of an architectural layout that appears to be neat and functional to the future building utilization. It was possible to restore construction techniques applicable to materials and geometries perfectly correlated to the original design. This allows the reconstructed part of the building to smoothly fade into the architectural equilibrium of the original structure. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £65 +P&P)
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