WOOD-BASED SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE QUALITY AND SAFETY AGAINST SEISMIC EVENTS IN CONSERVATION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

Historical buildings can be highly vulnerable to earthquakes if in-plane strength and stiffness of floors and roofs are not sufficient to limit out-of-plane deformation of walls and to transmit the seismic forces among walls efficiently. In fact, floors and roofs in existing masonry buildings are no...

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Main Authors: Elena Ongaretto, Luca Pozza, Marco Savoia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Center for Quality, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia 2016-03-01
Series:International Journal for Quality Research
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Online Access:http://www.ijqr.net/journal/v10-n1/1.pdf