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The paper focuses on the experimental procedures adopted for assessing the structural condition of the Zuccaro’s Tower situated in Mantua. A research program was planned and included historic and documentary research, direct survey and dynamic tests in operational conditions. The paper reports the outcomes of a wide multi-disciplinary research and underlines the strategic importance of direct visual survey (indicating the regions affected by major discontinuities) and dynamic tests (revealing anomalous warping distortion of the tower’s cross-sections) in the preliminary assessment of the ancient structure.
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Saisi, A., Terenzoni, S., Ruccolo, A., Gentile, C. (2019). Safety of the Architectural Heritage: Structural Assessment of the Zuccaro’s Tower in Mantua. In: Aguilar, R., Torrealva, D., Moreira, S., Pando, M.A., Ramos, L.F. (eds) Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions. RILEM Bookseries, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99441-3_260
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