ABSTRACT
PERPETUATE intends to develop European Guidelines for evaluation and mitigation of seismic risk to cultural heritage assets,
with innovative techniques for the seismic strengthening of historical buildings and preservation of artworks (frescos,
stucco-works, statues, battlements, banisters,...). the main deliverable of the project will be made by a main document,
wich outlines the safety and conservation conceptual approach and overall methodology, and other specific documents, describing
the different components of the risk analysis. Two different problems are considered: a) assesment of a single cultural heritage
asset (hazard analysis; soil foundation problems; investigations for the building knowledge; seismic analysis; SHM and
strengthening interventions); b) policy initiatives for seismic risk mitigation (simplified vulnerability and risk analysis
at territorial scale). Other important deliverables will come out from the application and validation of the methodology in
two case studies, the Citadel of Algiers and historical centre of Rhodes, both in the UNESCO list of the World Cultural Heritage.
The call asks for the development of "integrated methodologies and innovative tools" for "protection of the main cultural heritage
assets as regards the impact of earthquakes" and makes expressly reference to the contribution for improved regulation standards.
The recommendations recently issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture represent the framework for the development of European
Guidelines, applicable in the European and the other Mediterranean countries. The methodology proposed in PERPETUATE will use a
displacement-based approach for the vulnerability evaluation and the design of interventions; the use of safety verification in
terms of displacement, rather than strength, orients to new strengthening techniques and helps in the comprehension of the interaction
between structural elements and unmovable artistic assets.
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