8th Euro-American Congress
Construction Pathology, Rehabilitation Technology and Heritage Management
Organized by:
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dina D’Ayala
University College London, UK
Brief curriculum vitae
Prof Dina D’Ayala, is the Professor of Structural Engineering at University College London, within the Department of Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. She is head of Civil Engineering and Co-Director of the Earthquake and People Interaction Centre, EPICentre.
She is a director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineers and Fellow of the ICE. Her specialism is Structural Resilience Engineering with particular emphasis on the assessment, strengthening, preservation and resilience of existing buildings, structures, transport infrastructure and cultural heritage. Her current research focusses on resilience of structures and infrastructure to natural hazards, supported through research grants from EU FP7, INFRARISK, Horizon 2020, TURNKey, the RCUK, PARNASSUS, STORMLAMP, SCOSSO, PRISMH, Learning form Earthquake.
She has 25 years’ experience working with international agencies, the World Bank, ODA, UNDP, British Council, DfID, in countries such as Nepal, Pakistan, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Philippines etc., and leading interdisciplinary projects on enhancing resilience against natural hazards. She has produced Guidelines for DfID on assessment and strengthening of hospitals and reconstruction efforts in Nepal. She is the chief scientist for the World Bank on the Global Programme for Safe Schools (GPSS) and leads the development of the World Bank GLoSI project. She is a member of the Management Board of the International Centre for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk Reduction (ICCR-DRR) at Beijing Normal University.
Plenary session
A procedure for multi-hazard risk assessment of historic buildings
Cultural Heritage (CH) assets are a distinctive and valuable portion of the building stock worldwide, often representing a very important component of individual and collective identity. CH assets encompass not only individual buildings but also historic urban centres which are commonly formed by clusters of single units, undergoing to continuous transformations overt time. Although these clusters tend to maintain their original urban configuration, the transformations often modify the global structural behavior of the compounds. Furthermore, owing to their low-engineered construction features, CH assets are also often highly vulnerable to different natural hazards. To date, much research effort has been devoted to thoroughly understand the mechanism of damage that CH assets undergo in case of earthquakes. However, there is still a compelling need to develop quantitative methods able to assess the structural vulnerability of these buildings against different co-occurring perils, such as flooding or high wind speeds. Improved knowledge on this topic is of great importance to advance current mitigation measures for the retrofit of CH assets in multi-hazard prone countries, enhancing the decision-making process of their preservation to future generations.
This paper presents a mechanic-based procedure for the collapse load evaluation of historic masonry structures (HMS), exposed to earthquake, flood and wind loading.