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Knowledge Acquisition of Existing Buildings by Means of Diagnostic Surveying. Case Studies

The issue of assessing the structural safety of existing buildings involves several problems when a unique and reliable strategy of modelling and analyzing is looked for. This is mainly related to the peculiarity of each construction in a context of broad variety. In this light the structural model and consequently the judgment on structural safety should be derived from a process of knowledge of the construction carried through steps of different reliability. This paper focuses on a fundamen...

Application of infrared thermography in civil engineering: Limits and drawbacks

Infrared thermography (IRT) is an effective diagnostic methodology for existing buildings monitoring, whose efficiency is however affected by the operator’s technical knowledge. This paper presents experimental research aimed at evaluating the accuracy of IRT temperature measurements with respect to the incorrect setting of five input parameters required to be set by the operator: emissivity, reflected apparent temperature, ambient temperature, relative humidity, and distance. The goal w...

Hydrodynamic-driven morphogenesis of karst draperies: Spatio-temporal analysis of the two-dimensional impulse response

We study the role of hydrodynamic instabilities in the morphogenesis of some typical karst draperies structures encountered in limestone caves. The problem is tackled using the long wave approximation for the fluid film that flows under an inclined substrate, in the presence of substrate variations that grow according to a deposition law. We numerically study the linear and nonlinear evolution of a localized initial perturbation both in the fluid film and on the substrate, i.e. the Green func...