Earthquake Protection of Historical Buildings by Reversible Mixed Technologies. Intervention strategies for the seismic protection of historical ... basin (FP6 PROHITECH project) (Volume 1)

The cultural heritage of the Euro – Mediterranean area in largely exposed to seismic hazard, remaining the risk of several damages due to lack of basic anti-seismic features. The possibility to upgrade them from the structural point of view, could have detrimental effects on their cultural value. Consequently, the improvement of sustainable and reversible methodologies for the protection of existing constructions is a topical development subject. In this context, an important contribution has been given by the activity carried out by the Sixteen academic institutions within the “PROHITECH – Earthquake Protection of Historical Buildings by Reversible Mixed Technologies” European research project. This volume is composed by five Chapters, which contain the results of the activity of WP1, WP2, WP3 and WP4: – Ch1 “Seismic hazard in the Prohitech countries” – Ch2 “Damage assessment” – Ch3 “Seismic vulnerability assessment” – Ch4 “Overview of existing techniques” – Ch5 “Intervention strategies”