INTEGRATED PROCEDURES FOR KNOWLEDGE AND MONITORING OF EXISTING BUILDINGS: APPLICATION TO CASE STUDIES

The existing buildings knowledge is a crucial issue to ensure their conservation and preservation. To this end, a detailed survey is very frequently required, focused on dimensions, construction and materials details, crack patterns, presence of any damage and degradation. However, very often the number and quality of information depend on the analysis level to be performed. In fact, in many cases some investigations are unnecessary resulting in a waste of economic resources and time. For this reason, it may be needed to apply multi-level and integrated procedures, in order to improve the knowledge of an existing building, coherently with the analysis level required. To this scope a multidisciplinary methodology integrating historical-critical analysis, morphological evolution, destructive and non-destructive tests, and structural monitoring is developed and applied within the PON GENESIS Project. Some case studies are investigated, in order to apply and validate the proposed methodology. In particular, in this paper the preliminary results obtained on two archetypes recurrent within the historical center of Matera, the historical building “San Rocco HUB” in Matera, and the Castel “Pirro del Balzo” in Venosa are presented. The obtained results will be used in future to calibrate more refined numerical models to assess the seismic vulnerability of the case studies considered, and to validate the multidisciplinary integrated methodology proposed.