Location
New York, New York
Date
14 Apr 2004, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Abstract
A Thematic Area called “Geotechnics and Foundation Analyses” is an important stage of a large, interdisciplinary research activity, carried out on the subsoil of a historical site, in a seismic area, in Italy: the old town of Potenza, capital of the Basilicata Region. Within the said Thematic Area, the design and the construction of a “Foundation Map of a Historical Town” have been performed. The present paper summarizes the basic methodology, the most interesting procedures and the different stages developed for constructing the said map. Described is also the very exceptional effort, made by the Research-team. Foundation and geotechnical parameters of each building of the historical town have been searched, collected and studied, one by one. A parallel search has been developed to analyze the restoration activities implemented after the 1980 earthquake. More than 1.200 structure restoration projects, designed by engineers in eight years [1982 – 1990], have been examined. Nearly 250 buildings have been selected. All data collected and analyzed have been further processed to be merged into a designed “Foundation Matrix”, very useful for correlating together, for each single building, the original foundation with the foundation project designed for restoration.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Ciuffi, Filippo, "A Foundation Chart for Historical Town Restoring" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 51.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session01/51
A Foundation Chart for Historical Town Restoring
New York, New York
A Thematic Area called “Geotechnics and Foundation Analyses” is an important stage of a large, interdisciplinary research activity, carried out on the subsoil of a historical site, in a seismic area, in Italy: the old town of Potenza, capital of the Basilicata Region. Within the said Thematic Area, the design and the construction of a “Foundation Map of a Historical Town” have been performed. The present paper summarizes the basic methodology, the most interesting procedures and the different stages developed for constructing the said map. Described is also the very exceptional effort, made by the Research-team. Foundation and geotechnical parameters of each building of the historical town have been searched, collected and studied, one by one. A parallel search has been developed to analyze the restoration activities implemented after the 1980 earthquake. More than 1.200 structure restoration projects, designed by engineers in eight years [1982 – 1990], have been examined. Nearly 250 buildings have been selected. All data collected and analyzed have been further processed to be merged into a designed “Foundation Matrix”, very useful for correlating together, for each single building, the original foundation with the foundation project designed for restoration.
