Structural monitoring and assessment of an ancient masonry tower

Stefano Invernizzi; Giuseppe Lacidogna; Natalia E. Lozano-Ramírez; Alberto Carpinteri

doi:10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.05.011

Structural monitoring and assessment of an ancient masonry tower

Stefano Invernizzi, Giuseppe Lacidogna, Natalia E. Lozano-Ramírez, Alberto Carpinteri

Polytechnic University of Turin

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Abstract

The Asinelli Tower in Bologna is taken as a case study to define a general methodology for the analysis of historical masonry towers. The difficulties that are typically encountered in building finite element models of increasing complexity are addressed, proposing a general procedure. A formulation accounting for masonry anisotropy due to existing damage and cracking is presented, which is more effective in describing the dynamic behavior of the tower, compared with results available in the literature. In addition, acoustic emission monitoring results are presented and compared to the numerical simulations. The structural assessment of the tower is carried out with respect to different actions like seismicity, wind and urban traffic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	429-443
Number of pages	15
Journal	Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Volume	210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.05.011
State	Published - 01 Apr 2019

Keywords

Acoustic emissions
Damage
Finite element analysis
Fracture mechanics
Masonry

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