Evidence of seismic damages on ancient Roman buildings at Ostia: An arch mechanics approach

Pecchioli, Laura; Cangi, Giovanni; Marra, Fabrizio

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.07.006

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“…During the last decades some studies were carried out to better identify damage and reconstructions in relation with earthquakes in several worldwide urban contexts, both for recent and past earthquakes [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. For the Pompeii Archeological Park, the available data on the effects of the past earthquakes on buildings are still partially lacking.…”

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Seismic Microzonation of the Pompeii Archaeological Park (Southern Italy): Local Seismic Amplification Factors

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Pompeii Archaeological Park is the best laboratory for the study of the seismic site effects on cultural heritage: the ancient site was destroyed and buried by the 79 AD Vesuvian eruption and, furthermore, it was also affected by the 62–63 AD strong earthquake. Large sectors of the city were reconstructed after this earthquake while other parts were still under reconstruction when the fall-out and pyroclastic density currents of the eruption buried the Roman city. In order to evaluate the distribution of the damage and reconstructions due to the earthquake, detailed mappings of the structures were carried out using multidisciplinary approaches. In addition, analyses of the topographical features, subsoil stratigraphies, and geophysical surveys, responsible for local seismic amplification (site effects), allow us to define the sectors of the ancient city where the Amplification Factors (AFs) were the main ones responsible for damage. Selected areas and examples of compromised and reconstructed buildings show that the ancient topography and subsoil features (both lithological and seismic) are the main AFs. In particular, the damages caused by the 62–63 AD earthquakes seem to be mainly due to topographical factors such as steep scarps and slopes, ridges, peaks, and terraces, as well as to the major thickness of the soft sediments (loose volcanoclastic layers, paleosols, weathered lavas, and anthropogenic infillings) located over the well-lithified lavas. It is not uncommon to also have the combination of these two factors. For the first time, this multidisciplinary approach allows us to draw a seismic microzonation map for one of the most important archaeological sites of the world.

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Seismic Microzonation of the Pompeii Archaeological Park (Southern Italy): Local Seismic Amplification Factors

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“…Over the past few years, the analysis of ancient building structures has aroused huge attention from numerous researchers. Structural damage correlated with ancient buildings [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] has been extensively investigated, and ancient buildings [11][12][13] have been monitored and measured. Moreover, Xue et al built an earthquake damage assessment model for Chinese ancient wooden structures to reveal the influences exerted by the vibration on the ancient building [14].…”

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Safety Assessment of Ancient Buildings under Adjacent Subway Blasting Construction Based on the Optimized Fuzzy Optimal Method

Liu

Huang

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Shock and Vibration

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Fragile ancient buildings are recognized as an eloquent testimony to human civilization, and their safety should arouse more attention. According to the special case of adjacent blasting construction, the assessment model should be essentially built to assess the effect of tunnel blasting on the safety of the ancient buildings. To analyze the structural safety of ancient buildings under blasting vibration and to protect the precious ancient buildings, a risk assessment model of ancient buildings with 20 relevant assessment indexes was initiatively built in this study. To be specific, the relative factors of blasting, the factors of ancient buildings, and other factors (e.g., religion) were comprehensively considered in the model. Subsequently, the risk level and weight were calculated more systematically and quantitatively by adopting the optimized optimal comprehensive method integrating the G1 method and the entropy method. Lastly, the overall risk value was determined by applying the fuzzy gray method. Afterward, the value was adopted to assess the safety of the Asoka Temple, the only existing temple named after the Indian King Asoka in China, as an attempt to verify the feasibility of this model. Besides, the Asoka tunnel was around it. As demonstrated from the results, the age of the buildings maximally impacted the safety of ancient buildings, and the safety level of the Asoka Temple was “relatively safe.” The present study built an effective model to assess the safety of ancient buildings under adjacent subway blasting construction, which could help improve the efficiency and accuracy of assessments.

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“…The recent shift from qualitative to (semi)quantitative methods not only strengthens the archaeoseismological methodology and its scientific basis (Ambraseys, 2006;Galadini et al, 2006;Sintubin, 2013) but also provides a great opportunity to connect the research field to proactive strategies such as risk management and disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs in the context of cultural heritage protection (Jusseret, 2014;Sintubin, 2011). Indeed, the large-scale registration of Earthquake Archaeological Effects (EAE -Rodríguez-Pascua et al, 2011), the use of remote sensing tools (Lidar, photogrammetry -Forlin et al, 2018;Yerli et al, 2010) as well as the construction of seismic deformation simulation thanks to 3D models (Hinzen et al, 2013;Hinzen and Montabert, 2017;Pecchioli et al, 2018) constitute important steps towards monitoring strategies of archaeological remains. Addressing the impact of past earthquakes on cultural heritage has turned into an emerging priority, particularly in the Mediterranean area (Marchetti et al, 2017;Montabert et al, 2020;Remondino and Rizzi, 2010).…”

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Monumental Inca remains and past seismic disasters: A relational database to support archaeoseismological investigations and cultural heritage preservation in the Andes

Combey

Tricoche

Audin

et al. 2021

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

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Evidence of seismic damages on ancient Roman buildings at Ostia: An arch mechanics approach

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Seismic Microzonation of the Pompeii Archaeological Park (Southern Italy): Local Seismic Amplification Factors

Seismic Microzonation of the Pompeii Archaeological Park (Southern Italy): Local Seismic Amplification Factors

Safety Assessment of Ancient Buildings under Adjacent Subway Blasting Construction Based on the Optimized Fuzzy Optimal Method

Monumental Inca remains and past seismic disasters: A relational database to support archaeoseismological investigations and cultural heritage preservation in the Andes

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