A. Anzani1, E. Garavaglia2 and L. Binda3
- Assistant Professor, Dept of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy, EU, anzani@stru.polimi.it
- Assistant Professor, Dept of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy, EU, garava@stru.polimi.it
- Full Professor, Dept of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy, EU, binda@stru.polimi.it
ABSTRACT
In some cases, the assessment of the safety of historic buildings may require the evaluation of their vulnerability toward the effects of persistent loading. The problem of achieving a reliable lifetime estimate of this kind of structures involves many uncertainties. Therefore a probabilistic approach seems to be needed.
The lifetime assessment of ancient structures is investigated here through a simple stochastic approach, modelling the results of laboratory creep tests on the masonry of ancient buildings.
KEYWORDS: historic masonry, long term behaviour, probabilistic approach, fragility curves
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