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Partial Collapse of a Historical Masonry Building
On June 2007 the corner part of an ancient masonry building realized in the 20's of the last century at the centre of Salerno (Italy) fell down suddenly. The collapse occurred at the sunup, but no victims or injured people were caused only because that part of the building contained living rooms of apartments, rather than bedrooms. The building, made up of tuff masonry and having six storeys, was one of the most beautiful palaces of the town for its location and the beauty of the façades. During restoration works at the ground floor, retrofit interventions on masonry walls were been proposed and alarming cracks appeared along the masonry piers few days before the collapse. Despite these clear signs of alarm forecasting the disaster, no shoring structure was realized to avoid it. In this paper all the investigation phases that allowed to define the mechanics of the collapse and to identify its causes are discussed.
Partial Collapse of a Historical Masonry Building
On June 2007 the corner part of an ancient masonry building realized in the 20's of the last century at the centre of Salerno (Italy) fell down suddenly. The collapse occurred at the sunup, but no victims or injured people were caused only because that part of the building contained living rooms of apartments, rather than bedrooms. The building, made up of tuff masonry and having six storeys, was one of the most beautiful palaces of the town for its location and the beauty of the façades. During restoration works at the ground floor, retrofit interventions on masonry walls were been proposed and alarming cracks appeared along the masonry piers few days before the collapse. Despite these clear signs of alarm forecasting the disaster, no shoring structure was realized to avoid it. In this paper all the investigation phases that allowed to define the mechanics of the collapse and to identify its causes are discussed.
Partial Collapse of a Historical Masonry Building
Augenti, N. (author)
Fifth Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2009 ; Washington, D.C., United States
Forensic Engineering 2009 ; 387-394
2009-11-02
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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