Eleven technicians from cities such as Ancona, Modena, Rome and Salerno took part in a two-day training session on the most up-to-date methods for monitoring buildings in relation to earthquakes, organized by the University of the Republic of San Marino. With the involvement of the degree course in Civil Engineering, which starting next academic year will offer a specific address aimed precisely at anti-seismic and environmental sustainability, the initiative has explored the most advanced techniques for state checks in front of professionals and researchers conservation of properties that may have undergone changes over time that are not visible to the naked eye. The aim is to allow reliable assessments of structural safety to then plan, if necessary, reinforcement and seismic upgrading interventions.
“The experimentally determined dynamic parameters give us a picture of the state of health of a structure - says Fabrizio Gara, professor of Construction Techniques at the Polytechnic University of the Marches and speaker of the seminar together with his colleague Davide Roia, in the chair at the University of San Marino - this allows us to evaluate the resistance in the event of an earthquake and to check the functionality of the structure under operating conditions”.
The seminar, entitled "Fundamentals of dynamics and experimental and operational modal analysis of structures", was held at the headquarters of the Civil Engineering degree courses, in the historic center of Titano, on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 July. AEK Ingegneria collaborated with the organization, with the sponsorship of the scientific-cultural association Master.
