Abstract
The evaluation of the seismic safety of ancient masonry buildings usually requires compounding the need of preservation of the historical values with the need of achieving a proper level of knowledge of the parameters influencing their structural behaviour. To this aim, non-destructive techniques of instrumental investigation have lately attracted increasing attention, although the provided data are frequently not exhaustive and require to be integrated with different sources of information, such as historical documents and hypotheses of critical interpretation. Therefore, the management of this multi-source information is a crucial aspect in defining a methodological approach to the structural evaluation of the cultural heritage. This paper describes an integrated approach developed in the framework of the Project on the seismic evaluation of the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples (Italy) with reference to the typological identification of the horizontal structures at the first level of the building. The management of the data derived from the application of the infrared thermography, integrated with the information from the visual inspections, the architectural survey and the historic analysis, has allowed obtaining a complete characterization of the structures under study.
Highlights
The evaluation of the seismic safety of ancient masonry buildings requires the acquisition of an adequate knowledge about their main structural features in order to define a reliable model of the seismic behaviour
This paper presents some aspects of the investigation campaign carried out by the authors in the framework of the Italian ARCUS-MiBACT Project on the “Assessment of the seismic safety of National Museums of Italy” supported by the Ministry of the Cultural Heritage (MiBACT)
The management of multi-source information presented here was aimed at identifying the typology of the vaulted and horizontal structures upon the first level of the Capodimonte Museum located in Naples (Italy)
Summary
The evaluation of the seismic safety of ancient masonry buildings requires the acquisition of an adequate knowledge about their main structural features in order to define a reliable model of the seismic behaviour. The project, aimed at assessing the seismic safety of a historic masonry building [5, 6], and applied to the Capodimonte Museum in Napoli (Fig. 1) and to other National museums, has been developed according to the Italian Guidelines on Cultural Heritage [1]. According to a first hypothesis, the two adjacent rooms derive from the partition of a unique space covered by a structural masonry vault, maybe required by the exhibition needs of the Museum.
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