An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake

This paper illustrates a two-year program of summer internships that involved forty students from the School of Engineering (University of Pisa) in 2010-2011. The activity consisted in a systematic survey of damages occurred in a village after the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake and in the preparation of do...

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Main Authors: Linda Giresini, Mauro Sassu
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Language:English
Published: Gruppo Italiano Frattura 2018-09-01
Series:Fracture and Structural Integrity
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Online Access:https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/article/view/2125
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description This paper illustrates a two-year program of summer internships that involved forty students from the School of Engineering (University of Pisa) in 2010-2011. The activity consisted in a systematic survey of damages occurred in a village after the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake and in the preparation of documents addressed to a reconstruction plan. The historical center of San Pio delle Camere (1000 inhabitants) was fully surveyed, including about 140 hypogeal sites. Each student spent at least one month in these activities, funded by study grants provided by the Tuscany Region. Teams of two-three students performed well-defined work packages, led by a tutor, who established roles and functions. The students discussed the progress made preparing a weekly report. Moreover, preliminary structural analyses were carried out to assess the seismic vulnerability of some relevant buildings, fully available to the students. The main results were published in a book presented in a workshop. Most of the results were used to set up the official reconstruction plan of the village. During this on-site laboratory, the students could experience the effects of that destructive earthquake on the population, visiting also the damaged surrounding towns and seeing with their own eyes many cases of structural collapses.
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spelling doaj-art-0c78b0c60d7c47e99a57e6991f55bd4b2025-01-02T20:55:49ZengGruppo Italiano FratturaFracture and Structural Integrity1971-89932018-09-011246An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquakeLinda Giresini0Mauro Sassu1Univerisity of PisaUniversity of CagliariThis paper illustrates a two-year program of summer internships that involved forty students from the School of Engineering (University of Pisa) in 2010-2011. The activity consisted in a systematic survey of damages occurred in a village after the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake and in the preparation of documents addressed to a reconstruction plan. The historical center of San Pio delle Camere (1000 inhabitants) was fully surveyed, including about 140 hypogeal sites. Each student spent at least one month in these activities, funded by study grants provided by the Tuscany Region. Teams of two-three students performed well-defined work packages, led by a tutor, who established roles and functions. The students discussed the progress made preparing a weekly report. Moreover, preliminary structural analyses were carried out to assess the seismic vulnerability of some relevant buildings, fully available to the students. The main results were published in a book presented in a workshop. Most of the results were used to set up the official reconstruction plan of the village. During this on-site laboratory, the students could experience the effects of that destructive earthquake on the population, visiting also the damaged surrounding towns and seeing with their own eyes many cases of structural collapses.https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/article/view/2125InternshipsAbruzzo earthquaketeaching laboratoryeducational activitystructural analysissurvey of damages
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An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
Fracture and Structural Integrity
Internships
Abruzzo earthquake
teaching laboratory
educational activity
structural analysis
survey of damages
title An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
title_full An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
title_fullStr An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
title_full_unstemmed An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
title_short An on-site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake
title_sort on site teaching laboratory in a village damaged by the 2009 abruzzo earthquake
topic Internships
Abruzzo earthquake
teaching laboratory
educational activity
structural analysis
survey of damages
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