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Vulnus Vb 4.0: Procedura automatica per analisi di vulnerabilità sismica di edifici in muratura
No full textAggiornamento ed estensione in Visual basic della procedura VULNUS, di Bernardini-Gori-Modena, 1988. A cura di M.R. Valluzzi, con contributi di Benincà G., Barbetta E., Munari M
Esperienza ed evento della verità. Pratica filosofica e astrazione scientifica nel pensiero di A.N. Whitehead
No full textThis article analyzes the relationship between philosophy, experience and event in A.N. Whitehead’s thought. From the critics of the concept of object, the author retraces and describes the peculiar “abstract-concrete dialectic”, at the center of the researches concerning the perceptual experience.
Furthermore, according to Whitehead’s later works, she demonstrates how the philosophical practice is different from all other kinds of science, although it requires science itself because of the co-implication of object and event, abstraction and recognition
Il "Guerrin Meschino" di Gesualdo Bufalino : un'"opra" in versi
No full textGesualdo Bufalino first published Il Guerrin Meschino in 1991 in a non-commercial edition. In 1993, after a deep revision, he re-published his work with publisher Bompiani: the novel has a modified plot, and the author decided to insert three new poems in addition to the opening and closing poems, formerly present in 1991’s edition. This paper, in its entirety supported by handwritten material preserved at Fondazione Gesualdo Bufalino (Comiso), is divided in two parts: the first part illustrates the differences between the first and the second edition, the second part provides a critical edition of the five poems
Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry buildings by nonlinear static analyses and fragility curves
No full textThe seismic evaluation of existing masonry buildings is a fundamental subject matter in order to define prevention strategies and to reduce seismic risk. Multiple factors can affect the structural safety of each single building and their effects can be defined through the adoption of different analysis methodologies. One of these is the nonlinear static analysis of global behaviour: together with kinematic analysis, global analysis is one of the essential methods to be taken into account in order to obtain a comprehensive assessment on the seismic behaviour of existing masonry buildings. Through a knowledge phase conducted which included the collection of available historical documentation and in situ survey, nonlinear static analysis allows to correctly evaluation global seismic vulnerability. From these observations, an evaluate model has been defined for the assessment of the distribution of damage probability depending on the expected seismic activity starting from the capacity curves of each single building.
The aim of this proposed procedure is to define fragility curves for each construction typology; the method is carried out analysing some representative historical buildings belonging to the architectural heritage of the University of Padova. The study adopted is based on a preliminary knowledge phase. The information collected to define the construction typologies regard parameters about geometrical and structural characteristics: urban settlements (building isolated or in the aggregate), number of stories, masonry thickness, typologies of horizontal structures and roofing. The structural masonry is composed of solid brick for all constructions.
The analysis of the results will permit the application of the global vulnerability evaluation to other existing masonry buildings for different structures and on the basis of same construction typologies
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE TEACHER. IN MEMORY OF THE EXCELLENT TEACHER AND SCIENTIST M.R. SAPIN
No full textM.R. Sapin (1925–2015) was a professor at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, honorary academician of Russian academy of medical sciences (1988), and an outstanding representative of the Moscow anatomical school of the middle of XX – early XXI century. From the very beginning of his medical training, Mikhail Romanovich got interested in anatomy, especially in angiology and lymphology, and later concentrated on its studying. The author of more than 30 text books and guidelines for schools, universities, and colleges, Mikhail Romanovich was the doctoral and thesis advisor of 51 Ph.D. and approximately 70 MD dissertations. M.R. Sapin made a significant contribution to the development of anatomical education providing the departments with a various range of dry and wet specimens. His stunning and effective work as a tutor was highly appreciated by his students and colleagues, Russian and foreign anatomists. M.R. Sapin was the leader of the Laboratory of Functional Anatomy since 1972, president of the International Association of Morphologists (1992–2006), chairman of the expert commission of Higher Attestation Commission (1959–1994), etc. A man of a great willpower, M.R. Sapin faced a lot of obstacles in his life and research work but overcame that all successfully. The article presents the most important facts of anatomist’s career and lifetime.</jats:p
Verslag van het voorgevallene tijdens het hooge opperwater op de Nederlandsche rivieren in den winter van 1919 op 1920
No full textNadat de Rijn op 20 December 1919 tot even beneden den middelbaren zomerstand 1901-1910 (M.R.) was gedaald vertoonde zich op die rivier een sterke en vrij snelle was, waardoor het water te Keulen tot 6m +M.R. bij het einde van het jaar steeg. In de daarop volgende 11 dagen daalde de waterstand tot 1.5m +M.R. om daarna in 5 dagen weder te rijzen tot den zeer hoogen stand van 7m +M.R. Door een aanvankelijk sterken later flauweren val liep de stand weder terug tot 1.5m +M.R. op 30 Januari. Ook op de Maas vertoonden zich twee dicht op elkaar volgende sterke wassen. Bij den aanvang van den eersten was op 19 december stond het water te Maastricht op ruim 1m +M.R. en steeg het in 6 dagen tot 4.37m +M.R.; in de daaropvolgende 9 dagen bleef de stand steeds hoger dan 4m +M.R. en daalde toen tot ongeveer 2m +M.R. op 10 Januari 1920. De tweede was trad op laatsgenoemde datum in waarbij het water oplied tot 4.94m +M.R. op 15 Januari. Het water daalde daarna dadelijk en was op 29 Januari tot ongeveer 2m +M.R. weggevallen. Bij den tweeden was op Rijn en Maas werden de hoogst bekende waterstanden bij open rivieren overtroffen te Keulen met 7 cm en te Maastricht met 2 cm. De rivieren waren ijsvrij.Hoogwaterversla
Seismic vulnerability assessment of corner buildings in the historical centre of Timisoara
No full textThe identification of procedures for the seismic risk mitigation of historical centers necessarily requires a preliminary study of the seismic vulnerability assessment on a urban scale of its building heritage. Methodologies defined for the latter purpose should be appropriately calibrated considering building features and construction techniques of the analyzed area, allowing their implementation in different local contexts.
This paper focuses on the seismic vulnerability assessment of the historical center of Timisoara (Romania). The center is formed by blocks mostly belonging to the Hapsburg period, which are characterized by recurring construction techniques and building geometries. In particular, corner buildings and their façades are analyzed in order to define recurring typologies. For the most representative ones, an analysis of the in-plane local mechanisms of collapse of the façades facing the street is performed by adopting a kinematic approach.
The data acquisition is based on a rapid survey which does not require physically entering each single building; as a consequence, geometrical and structural data are varied parametrically in order to take into consideration the possible lack of information or the data uncertainty. Carried on analyses led to the definition of the fragility curves for the in-plane mechanisms. However, this approach allows assessing the façades vulnerability by defining an a priori damage pattern based on façades geometrical configuration. In order to assess more accurately the damage pattern evolution, a global analysis of the most representative corner buildings typologies is carried out, deepening also the study of buildings aggregation modes. This study will contribute to the creation of useful tools for the evaluation of aggregate buildings vulnerability (for example, vulnerability maps) and, as a consequence, for the definition of strategies to reduce the seismic risk
Seismic prevention and rahabilitation of nonstructural elements. Criteria to define a post-seismic damage analysis procedure
No full textIt reports very briefly the research work, developed by the author during her Doctorate course, about a post-seismic damage analysis procedure for nonstructural elements of framed structure building system
The Ontology of the Causal Basis of Man : To the Theory of Time
No full textIn 2014, Amirbegov Y.M.'s monograph titled "Mechanics of Thinking" or "Ontological Basis of the Subject" was published, which dealt with a philosophical question: the relationship of matter with consciousness and time of our being. But since the monograph duplicated the thesis conceived by the author and did not go beyond the material presented in it, on the advice of the consultant the author of the monograph is preparing its second edition in an expanded version with a new title: " Ontology of Causal Basis of Man", attracting his mentor, the author of "The Theory of Time or Principle of Formation of Matter Forms" Amirbegov M.R., as a co-author of this book,
Adhering to the opinion that matter between past and future temporal conti-nuity of eternity is reduced to nothing and in reality there remains only a causeless "Nothing", the authors of this book from a clean sheet, but with baggage of knowledge about objective forms of being and causeless reality with its possibili-ties, build an unparalleled theoretical model of human integrity, answering the question: what does a man, his sensorium, consciousness, his thinking apparatus and thought itself, why and how? The authors submit this book to the judgment of the reader
The Ontology of the Causal Basis of Man : To the Theory of Time
No full textIn 2014, Amirbegov Y.M.'s monograph titled "Mechanics of Thinking" or "Ontological Basis of the Subject" was published, which dealt with a philosophical question: the relationship of matter with consciousness and time of our being. But since the monograph duplicated the thesis conceived by the author and did not go beyond the material presented in it, on the advice of the consultant the author of the monograph is preparing its second edition in an expanded version with a new title: " Ontology of Causal Basis of Man", attracting his mentor, the author of "The Theory of Time or Principle of Formation of Matter Forms" Amirbegov M.R., as a co-author of this book,
Adhering to the opinion that matter between past and future temporal conti-nuity of eternity is reduced to nothing and in reality there remains only a causeless "Nothing", the authors of this book from a clean sheet, but with baggage of knowledge about objective forms of being and causeless reality with its possibili-ties, build an unparalleled theoretical model of human integrity, answering the question: what does a man, his sensorium, consciousness, his thinking apparatus and thought itself, why and how? The authors submit this book to the judgment of the reader
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