Multidisciplinary Approach to a Recovery Plan of Historical Buildings

The paper emphasizes the advantages of employing multiple data techniques—geology, GPS, surveys of cracking, boreholes, seismic refraction and electrical resistivity tomography—to image the shallow stratigraphy and hypothesize the cause of instability of an urban area. The study is focused on th...

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Main Author: Luciana Orlando
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal of Geophysics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/258043
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description The paper emphasizes the advantages of employing multiple data techniques—geology, GPS, surveys of cracking, boreholes, seismic refraction and electrical resistivity tomography—to image the shallow stratigraphy and hypothesize the cause of instability of an urban area. The study is focused on the joint interpretation of the crack pattern, topographic monitoring and the features of the underground, to define the area affected by instability and the direction of ground motion with the objective to advance a hypothesis on the cause of the instability of the area and to depict the main features. Borehole stratigraphies for a univocal interpretation of the lithology of electrical and seismic data and electrical resistivity tomography to constrain the interpretation of the lateral velocity variations and thickness of seismic bedrock were used. The geophysical surveys reveals to be complementary in the depicting of underground features. The study is approached at small and medium scale.
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spelling doaj-art-f02bfe87fb4b4aab9ed08e77f5cd3ec72025-08-20T03:21:20ZengWileyInternational Journal of Geophysics1687-885X1687-88682011-01-01201110.1155/2011/258043258043Multidisciplinary Approach to a Recovery Plan of Historical BuildingsLuciana Orlando0Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, ItalyThe paper emphasizes the advantages of employing multiple data techniques—geology, GPS, surveys of cracking, boreholes, seismic refraction and electrical resistivity tomography—to image the shallow stratigraphy and hypothesize the cause of instability of an urban area. The study is focused on the joint interpretation of the crack pattern, topographic monitoring and the features of the underground, to define the area affected by instability and the direction of ground motion with the objective to advance a hypothesis on the cause of the instability of the area and to depict the main features. Borehole stratigraphies for a univocal interpretation of the lithology of electrical and seismic data and electrical resistivity tomography to constrain the interpretation of the lateral velocity variations and thickness of seismic bedrock were used. The geophysical surveys reveals to be complementary in the depicting of underground features. The study is approached at small and medium scale.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/258043
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