Title
Bell Towers of Lima’s Cathedral: An Architectural-Engineering Combined Seismic Study
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Rossi E.
Grande F.
Gigliotti R.
Faggella M.
Publisher(s)
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
This paper focuses on the seismic evaluation of the Bell Towers of Lima’s Cathedral. The church, which dates back to 1535, has been modified and reconstructed several times over the centuries, changing its structural assembly in terms of lightening and strengthening. Focusing on the massive 45Â m tall towers, linear kinematic analyses have been performed in order to evaluate their vulnerability. The results show how its actual performance is far below the safety requirements of the Peruvian code. Such code, however, lacks of regulations aimed at increasing structural safety of existing buildings and, thus, it does not provide any reference on the minimum safety level to reach on a monumental construction such as the Cathedral. A simple intervention using steel ties has been proposed in order to increase such performance on nearly all the considered collapse mechanisms, however the reference value of structural safety, due to absence of other prescription, has been set as the ultimate limit state for new constructions.
Start page
1498
End page
1506
Volume
18
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geoquímica, Geofísica
Ingeniería civil
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85052313988
Resource of which it is part
RILEM Bookseries
ISSN of the container
22110844
Sponsor(s)
This work has been partially completed thanks to the ELARCH project “Euro-Latin America partnership in natural Risk mitigation and protection of the Cultural Her-itage”, funded with support of the European Commission Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, EACEA, grant no. 552129-EM-1-2014-1-IT-ERA MUNDUS-EMA21. This document reflects the view only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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