Connections and dissipative systems with early warning
Sara Paganoni, Dina F. D'Ayala, Lorenzo Miccoli, S. Hračov, Shota Urushadze, M. (Martin) Wünsche, C. E. Adami, E. Vintzileou, Saulo V. Moreira, Daniel V. Oliveira, P. James, Vítor Cóias · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2012
The global response of historic buildings is determined by the behaviour of the single structural elements as well as by their mutual connections consequently in the last decades a number of technical solutions for the improvement of structural connections have been developed in response to the increasing demand in the field of the seismic protection of heritage assets. At the same time, the experimental assessment of structural strengthening techniques as a well established practice both in the scientific community and among commercial producers. It is therefore surprising how testing of connections as rarely performed and very few codes of practice deal with it. Within the framework of the EU-funded NIKER project, Work package 6 aims to address such technical gap thought the development of procedures specific to the strengthening of structural connections of historic buildings.