Learning From Failure: Long-Term Behavior of Heavy Masonry Structures

                         

Author: Luigia Binda | Size: 6.1 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Unspecified | Publisher: WIT Press | Year: 2008 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 9781845640576 

This book will help architects and engineers to understand and deal with the continuous damage of heavy structures. It includes a recognition of signs of the phenomenon, proposed predictive models, and guidelines for the on-site investigation, monitoring and repair of the damaged structures.The book examines a number of well known cases: the collapse of the Civic Tower of Pavia (March 17 1989); the collapse of the St. Marco bell-tower in Venice (1902), the collapse of the Sancta Maria Magdalena bell-tower in Dusseldorf (1992); damage to the bell-tower of the Monza Cathedral; damage to the Torrazzo in Cremona; the collapse of the Noto Cathedral (1996).The book describes ongoing experimental research, begun in 1989, designed to examine the phenomenon. After a careful interpretation of the experimental results, also based on experience from rock mechanics and concrete, modelling of the phenomenon for massive structures as creep behavior of masonry was implemented.

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Learning From Failure: Long-Term Behavior of Heavy Masonry Structures
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