Damage Assessment of San Francesco Church in Amandola Hit by Central Italy 2016-2017 Seismic Event

Abstract:

Italy is a high seismic risk country since 1900 more than 30 earthquakes with magnitude greater than M_w=5.8 have occurred, and the last one is the Central Italy seismic sequence. The first shock occurred in the 24 August (Mw=6.2) followed by another stronger quake in the 30^th October (Mw=6.5). It hit the regions of Marche, Umbria, and Abruzzo heavily causing many deaths, injuries and extensive damages on the cultural heritage. This paper analyses the church of San Francesco in Amadola, located in the Marche region that has been considered condemned for the severe damages reported after these earthquakes. The church is globally analyzed by the application of nonlinear static analysis on a Finite Element Model where the nonlinearity of masonry is taking into account with a proper constitutive law. The study wants to prove how global analysis combined by the local analysis can reproduce the behavior of this structure during a quake, showing that it can repeat the real damages produced by earthquakes.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 817)
• Pages: 627-633
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.817.627
• Online since: August 2019
• Authors: Ersilia Giordano*, Angela Ferrante, Elisa Ribilotta, Francesco Clementi, Stefano Lenci
• Keywords: 3D Smeared Crack Model, Earthquake Loading, Finite Element Modelling, Masonry Church, Nonlinear Static Analysis

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