Ambient vibration testing of historic masonry towers for structural identification and damage assessment

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1311-1321

  Gentile, C ^a   Saisi, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient vibration test; Damage; F.e. model identification; Masonry towers; Operational modal analysis

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TOWERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AMBIENT VIBRATION TESTS; DAMAGE; MASONRY TOWERS; OPERATIONAL MODAL ANALYSIS;

MASONRY CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33846807657     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Binda L., Gatti G., Mangano G., Poggi C., and Sacchi Landriani G. The collapse of the Civic Tower of Pavia: a survey of the materials and structure. Masonry Int 20 6 (1992) 11-20
2. Binda L, Anzani A, Mirabella Roberti G. The failure of ancient Towers: problems for their safety assessment. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture, STREMAH 95, Crete: Chania, 1995. p. 179-186.
3. Binda L, Tongini Folli R, Mirabella Roberti G. Survey and investigations for the diagnosis of damage in masonry structures: the "Torrazzo" of Cremona. In: Proceedings of the 12th International brick/block Masonry conference, Madrid, Spain, 2000. p. 237-257.
4. Valluzzi MR, da Porto F, Modena C. Structural investigation and strengthening of the Civic Tower in Vicenza. In: Proceedings of Structural Faults and Repairs 2003, UK: London, 2003 (10 pages, on CD-ROM).
5. Lionello A, Cavaggioni I, Modena C, Casarin F, Rossi PP, Rossi C. Experimental and numerical analysis of the structural behaviour of St. Stefano's bell-tower in Venice. In: Proceedings of the 4th International seminar on structural analysis of Historic Constructions, Italy: Padova, 2004. p. 533-542.
6. Friswell M.I., and Mottershead J.E. Finite element model updating in structural dynamics (1995), Kluwer Academic, The Netherlands, Dordrecht
7. Binda L, Poggi C. Assessment of the mechanical behaviour of materials and structures of the bell-tower adjacent to the Cathedral of Monza by on-site tests and numerical simulation. Technical Report, Politecnico di Milano, 1997 [in Italian].
8. Binda L., Tiraboschi C., and Tongini Folli R. On site and laboratory investigation on materials and structure of a bell-tower in Monza Int. Zeitschrift für Bauinstandsetzen und baudenkmalpflege 6 1 (2000) 41-62
9. Abdel-Ghaffar A.M., and Housner G.W. Ambient vibration tests of suspension bridge. J Engineering Mechanics Div ASCE 104 5 (1978) 983-999
10. Abdel-Ghaffar A.M., and Scanlan R.H. Ambient vibration studies of Golden Gate bridge. I: Suspended structure. J Eng Mech Div ASCE 111 4 (1985) 463-482
11. Brownjohn J.M.W., Dumanoglu A.A., and Severn R.T. Ambient vibration survey of the Faith Sultan Mehmet (Second Bosporus) suspension bridge. Earthquake Eng Struct Dynam 21 (1992) 907-924
12. Wilson J.C., and Liu T. Ambient vibration measurements on a cable-stayed bridge. Earthquake Eng Struct Dynam 20 (1991) 723-747
13. Gentile C., and Martinez y Cabrera F. Dynamic investigation of a repaired cable-stayed bridge. Earthquake Eng Struct Dynam 26 (1997) 41-59
14. Brownjohn J.M.W., and Xia P.Q. Dynamic assessment of curved cable-stayed bridge by model updating. J Struct Eng ASCE 126 2 (2000) 252-260
15. Gentile C., and Martinez y Cabrera F. Dynamic performance of twin curved cable-stayed bridges. Earthquake Eng Struct Dynam 33 (2004) 15-34
16. Brownjohn J.M.W. Ambient vibration studies for system identification of a tall building. Earthquake Eng Struct Dynam 32 (2003) 71-95
17. Bendat J.S., and Piersol A.G. Engineering applications of correlation and spectral analysis. 2nd ed. (1993), Wiley Interscience, USA, New York
18. Brincker R, Zhang LM, Andersen P. Modal identification from ambient responses using Frequency Domain Decomposition. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Modal Analysis Conf., USA: San Antonio, 2000.
19. Collins J.D., Hart G.C., and Hasselmann T.K. Statistical identification of structures. AIAA J 12 2 (1974) 185-190
20. Douglas B.M., and Reid W.H. Dynamic tests and system identification of bridges. J Struct Div ASCE 108 10 (1982) 2295-2312
21. Modena C, Valluzzi MR, Tongini Folli R, Binda L. Design choices and intervention techniques for repair and strengthening of the Monza Cathedral bell-tower. In: Proceeding of the Structural Faults and Repairs 2001, UK: London, 2001 (12 pages, on CD-ROM).
22. Welch P.D. The use of Fast Fourier Transform for the estimation of Power Spectra: a method based on time averaging over short modified periodograms. IEEE Trans AU-15 (1967) 70-73
23. Golub G.H., and Van Loan C.F. Matrix Computations. 3rd ed. (1996), J. Hopkins University Press
24. Allemang RJ, Brown DL. A correlation coefficient for modal vector analysis. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Modal Analysis Conference, USA: Orlando, 1982. p. 110-116.