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Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering
No full textThis book presents recent advances in mechatronic and integrated monitoring and management systems with applications to architectural, archaeology survey, construction management and civil engineering. It consists of 16 chapters authored by recognized experts in a variety of fields including dynamics, signal processing, inverse modeling, robotics and automation, in particular, here applied to design and construction of civil structures and architectural survey, monitoring and maintenance of cultural heritage assets, structures and infrastructure. The book is organized in three main sections: “Robotics and Automation”, “Digital Technologies for Cultural Heritage” and “Civil Structural Health Monitoring”. Topics include image processing for automated visual inspection, fiber optical sensor technology, wireless sensor monitoring, bridge inspection and monitoring of tunnel infrastructures, design tools for construction engineering, smart cities. Direct and inverse modeling of multibody systems and robots contributes to the development of applications for civil engineering and smart cities. Digital technology and mechatronic systems changes the way of looking at restoration of historical and archeological sites, analysis, inspection, visualization, management systems and sensor network for Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI). Combined use of geographical information system (GIS), laser scanner, remote sensing, digital thermography and drones as integrated systems permits to highlight new frontier for building and infrastructure knowledge.
The book offers a valuable reference work for scientists, architects, engineers, researchers and practitioners in engineering and architecture since the integrated development of new technologies for the design and management of existing and new infrastructure may produce a new market of services and products for safe and economically optimized infrastructure management.
Through the dissemination of advanced research developments in mechatronics and integrated management systems, the book promotes exchanges and collaborations among researchers of different disciplines. The book contributes to further advancements in the rapidly growing field of integration of robotic, automation and information technologies in the area of facilities and infrastructure management and construction processes
La cooperazione internazionale nel processo di rivitalizzazione del patrimonio post-industriale | international cooperation in the process of revitalizing post-industrial heritage
No full textThe paper aims to present the results of some projects of research, carried out in cooperation among the Silesian University of Technology in Poland, the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio and the University of Pisa in Italy (2015-2017) and finalized to develop methods for the revitalization of post-industrial heritage thanks to international exchange of knowledges and experiences
The Heritage Management and Preservation Using the Mechatronic Survey
No full textThe management and preservation of heritage assets are important issues for their sustainability and further maintenance. Classical approaches mainly rely on human activities that are time consuming with high costs. In addition, mandatory actions required, often clash with the difficulty of access to the sites, high cost, and invasiveness of investigations. Mechatronic advanced tools can be developed and efficiently used as technological solutions to address the problem. Our
project’s aim is to test low-cost technologies to monitor and manage cultural heritage trying to significantly reduce the acquisition and maintenance costs and widespread their use. Main features of these systems for automatic survey can be based on ground or aerial solutions to access heritage assets. Specifically, in indoor or underground survey, information on textural data of the materials constituting the various objects and the state of decay can be investigated. In
outdoor survey, digital images can be collected to create a BIM. In this contribution, basic components and use of such tools are described. Experimental tests were performed in a historical small town in Valcomino by using a ground robotic system, an outdoor relief of the historical city center Borgo San Rocco located in Sora was used to build a BI
Digital and Mechatronic Technologies Applied to the Survey of Brownfields
No full textThe brownfields are amongst the most relevant historical evidences of the socio-economic heritage of
populations. The rehabilitation of these sites, often aimed at inserting them in a newly conceived connective
tissue of the cities, requires complete and accurate knowledge of their historical and architectural
value: the former use of spaces, constructive technologies, environmental conditions and present
deterioration must be investigated. The width and complexity of these architectural/urban areas requires
complex survey methodologies. These analyses take advantage from digital mechatronic tools such as
hybrid rover equipped with sensors to provide information on the damage of structures, degradation of
plaster and in general on the state of the materials forming the different parts of the brownfield. This
Chapter analyze a procedure combining traditional survey with mobile robot technology, aimed at recovering
the geometrical and architectural features of these complex sites. The mechatronic survey is
schematized as composed by main five tasks, which are described in the Chapter
Experimental and numerical investigation of the effects of wind exposure on historical towns
Full text linkThe Italian territory has a particularly rich cultural landscape, being composed of about 20.000 historic towns and villages, identified as "minor" only because of their relatively small dimension in comparison with the large cities. Many of these urban centers, especially in the southern Lazio, have not undergone the dynamic housing transformation, typical of other old towns, such as abandonment, replacement of the inhabitants with the inclusion of new social classes, or reuse of all or part for tourist-commercial purpose. It would seem that they have retained a "modus vivendi" antinomical of the non-places of contemporary cities, preserving a high social quality of aggregative life within urban arrangements characterized by a strong aesthetic identity. However, most of them are suffering significant degradation due to intrinsic reasons, such as the characteristics of the materials and the quality of construction, or external anthropogenic or environmental factors, such as, respectively, the lack of maintenance, humidity, solar irradiation and wind exposure. Often, the impact of these factors is compounded by the geographical position where these urban centers are located. In fact, many settlements arose and flourished in the Middle Ages, as result of the aggregation of minor architecture grown spontaneously. While, on one hand their original urban composition and the strong empathetic relationship with the natural environment represent an indubitable aesthetic value, they also are among the factors of major vulnerability. Frequently, the degradation of buildings facades has to be sought in the planimetric morphology of roads, forming street canyons where powerful wind channels are conveyed. Alveolization of natural stones or detachment of plaster are triggered by the erosive capacity of the wind enhanced by the development of mold and plants induced by the detainment of water and the low solar irradiation. The analysis of the environmental context is a fundamental step for the preservation of the historic buildings and for the whole project of restoration. In the present research this study is performed on a village (Borgo San Rocco) located in the southern Lazio. In particular, in the present paper the authors present the results of a wider research activity aimed at experimentally and numerically investigate historic buildings degradation due to wind exposure. The air velocity field and the viscous stresses in correspondence of the building walls of the Borgo San Rocco village have been numerically investigated by means of modern Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques. Validation of the numerical results is obviously crucial. Velocity field, Reynolds stresses and wall viscous stresses significantly depend on the basic assumptions employed and on the turbulence mathematical modelling approach adopted. In order to validate the employed numerical tool a scaled model of part of the Borgo San Rocco Village has been realized with a 3D printer and the air velocity field about the model has been experimentally investigated in the wind tunnel available at the Laboratory of Industrial Measurements (LaMI) of the University of Cassino employing the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). A proper uncertainty analysis has been conducted to evaluate the measurement uncertainty affecting experiments. Measurements conducted at the LaMI have been numerically reproduced in order to validate the adopted CFD tool. The validated model will be applied to the simulation of the full-size Borgo San Rocco village in order to analytically correlate buildings degradation to local wind velocity and wall viscous stresses
The survey of "eu-topic paces": integration of traditional survey with computer techniques to the case of S. Pietro Infine
No full text[Recensione:] Adriana Arena (2024). I disegni di Francesco Valenti. Elementi espressivi e caratteristiche tecniche. San Giuliano Milanese: FrancoAngeli
No full textIl colore nel rilievo strumentale: laser scanner, termografia e postprocessing dei dati in un sistema GIS
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