37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

October 26, 10 h 30–11 h 00 (Room 0)Courtesy: AIDICO. Instituto Tecnológico de la Construcción de la Comunidad Valenciana.Presentation: D. Javier Yuste Navarro. Director de la Unidad Técnica de Investigación enSeguridad y Tecnología de la Construcción.PROF. FEDERICO M. MAZZOLANIFull Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of StructuralEngineering of the University of Naples “Federico II”.Doctor Honoris Causa at Technical University of Bucharest (1995).Doctor Honoris Causa at Politehnica University of Timisoara (1996).Charles Massonnet award (2001).Member of the Royal Academy of Engineers of Spain (since 2000)Member of the Academy of Engineers of Czech Republic (since 2004).President of the Doctoral School of Civil Engineering CONFIRMADO(since 2005) at theUniversity of Naples “Federico II”.President of the Master in Design of Steel Structures (since 2006) at the University of Naples“Federico II”.Chairman of the ECCS-TC 13 Committee “Seismic Design” (1985-2007). Chairman of the CEN-TC250/SC9 Committee “Design of Aluminium Structures” (since 1992). Chairman of the national“mirror” committee for Eurocode 3 (Steel structures), Eurocode 4(Composite steel-concretestructures) and Eurocode 9 (Aluminium structures) (1990-2006). Chairman of the InternationalSTESSA Conferences on the “Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas” (since 1994).Coordinator of the ILVA-IDEM research project on “Seismic upgrading of RC buildings by advancedtechniques (2000-2005). Coordinator of the international PROHITECH Project on “EarthquakeProtection of Historical Buildings by Mixed Reversible Technologies” (2004-2008).Chairman of the COST C26 Action on “Urban Habitat Constructions under Catastrophic Events”(2006-2010). Chairman of the Steering Committee of SIJLAB “Sino-Italian Laboratory for ArchimedesBridge” (2004-2008). Coordinator of the international Sino-Italian REHICO project on “Innovativemethodologies for the rehabilitation of historical constructions” (2006-2009).Member of the Canadian Standard Association (since 2007). Member of the Board of IAESE(International Association for Experimental Structural Engineering) (since 2008). Member of the ESFPool of Reviewers (since 2009).His main research topics are: structural analysis and design, steel and aluminium structures(connection, stability), earthquake engineering (seismic design, passive control) and structuralrestoration (consolidation, upgrading).He is Author of more than 700 papers in journals and conference proceedings, 49 monographs and 34books (26 in English, 2 in Chinese).ABSTRACT: PROTECTION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGSThe seismic protection of historical buildings is being looked at with greater and greater interest,above all in the Euro-Mediterranean area, its cultural heritage being strongly susceptible to undergosevere damage or even collapse due to earthquake. The cultural importance of historical constructionslimits, in many cases, the possibility to upgrade them from the seismic point of view, due to the fear ofusing intervention techniques which could have detrimental effects on their cultural value.Consequently, a great interest is growing in the development of sustainable methodologies for theseismic protection of the existing constructions.In this context, this presentation is focused on the conception, experimentation and modelling oftechniques for the seismic protection of historical buildings. The described activity has been developedwithin the “PROHITECH – Earthquake PROtection of HIstorical Buildings by Reversible MixedTECHnologies” European research project, in which sixteen academic Institutions belonging to twelveEuro-Mediterranean Countries (Italy, Algeria, Belgium, Egypt, Macedonia, Greece, Israel, Morocco,Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey) were involved. Within that research project, several seismicprotection techniques have been studied both in experimental and numerical ways, so that a deep andcomprehensive understanding of the faced issues has been achieved.The proposed systems for the seismic protection of historical constructions typical of the Euro-Mediterranean area are mainly based on reversible mixed technologies, which use, also incombination, FRP (Fibre Reinforced Polymers) elements, steel sleeves, steel or aluminium shearpanels, steel connectors.The described applications show the advantages of the proposed techniques for the seismicprotection of historically buildings, since they allow to both protect the constructions in case of seismicevents and to preserve their cultural value.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 21