Ancient Buildings and Earthquakes
Reducing the vulnerability of historical built-up environment by recovering the Local Seismic Culture: principles, methods, potentialities

a cura di: Ferruccio Ferrigni, B. Helly, L. Mendes Victor, Piero Pierotti, A. Rideaud, P. Teves Costa

EDIPUGLIA 2005

INTRODUCTION

A European research programme for the protection of traditional housing stock (Bruno Helly)

THE SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND

1. History and praxis (Piero Pierotti)

THE TOOLS OF KNOWLEDGE

2. Earthquakes and their environment (Luis Mendes Victor, Paula Teves Costa)
3. Seismicity, historical seismicity and catalogues (Luis Mendes Victor, Paula Teves Costa
4. Structures behaviour, vulnerability and seismic risk (Luis Mendes Victor, Paula Teves Costa)
5. Land-use planning and building policies (Piero Pierotti)

TEN YEARS OF RESEARCH)

6. The Ravello approach (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
7. Case studies (edited by Bruno Helly)

THE LOCAL SEISMIC CULTURE

8. What can be done for ancient buildings exposed to seismic risk? (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
9. What can be done to protect ancient buildings in seismic zones? A possible new approach (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
10. The Local Seismic Culture (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
11. The recovery of the Local Seismic Culture as preventive action (Ferruccio Ferrigni)

THE POSSIBLE FOLLOW UP

12. The Local Seismic Culture in the post-seismic phase (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
13. The Local Seismic Culture approach and other disciplines (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
14. The training question (Ferruccio Ferrigni)

CONCLUSIONS

Synthesis and perspectives (Ferruccio Ferrigni)

AFTERWORD

Some methodological remarks (Ferruccio Ferrigni)

APPENDICES

Materials and tools used in on-site experiments (Ferruccio Ferrigni)
Seismic scales (Luis Mendes Victor)
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