Resimus: A Research Project on the Seismic Vulnerability of Museums’ Collections

Viti, Stefania; Tanganelli, Marco

doi:10.7712/120119.7112.19002

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“…Recently, many contributions have been dedicated to the vulnerability assessment of artworks; most of them were focused on the seismic response of specific case-studies 5 6 7 8 , whilst few general contributions have been referred to miscellaneous art collections 9 10 . The current research project 11 focuses on the seismic vulnerability of artworks, and it comprehended both single pieces-of art and entire collections.…”

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Florence and the Renaissance art works: the importance of the seismic safety

Viti

Trovatelli²

2023

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Florence is known all over the world for its history, monuments, Museums, and artworks. Unfortunately, such precious manufacts are not always adequately protected against natural hazards. Works of art, indeed, are very vulnerable to seismic effects, due to their irregular and slender shapes, and their fragile materials. All these reasons make them vulnerable to seismic events even when they do not achieve a destructive intensity. The current Technical Codes point out such vulnerability, despite providing guidelines not completely adequate to prevent the seismic damage. In this frame, a research activity has started within the Department of Architecture of Florence aimed at investigating the dynamic response of artworks to seismic events, including both simplified form-filling and more detailed Finite Element analyses. In this work, the seismic performance of the marble statue “Oceanus” by Giambologna has been as- sessed by adopting three different analytical models.

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Florence and the Renaissance art works: the importance of the seismic safety

Viti

Trovatelli²

2023

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“…It is well known that the reliability of the numerical analysis depends on the assumptions made in the analysis. Some numerical analyses were performed within the research project "Resimus" [4,5,[15][16][17] on the statue "Cerere" by Bartolomeo Ammannati. Two advanced Finite Element models have been adopted for representing the artifact.…”

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Dynamic Analysis of Artifacts: Experimental Tests for the Validation of Numerical Models

Tanganelli¹,

Coli²,

Cimellaro³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COM

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The protection of art goods is an important issue of the seismic engineering. Artifacts are often made by fragile and ancient material, and they can easily present irregular shapes and high slenderness. In these years many contributions have been devoted to their analysis, based on numerical models having different complexity and computational effort. The Finite Element Models represent the most common and versatile approach for the representation of artifacts. Nevertheless, their reliability depends on the numerical assumptions made for the analysis, which requires a wide number of information regarding the dynamic behavior of the artifacts, such as the friction between the analyzed object and its support, the effective damping, the inelastic involvement of material, etc. In this work an experimental campaign has been started aimed at determining the main factors which affect the dynamic representation of artifacts through FEM analysis and simplified models. A large number of experimental tests, both static and dynamic, have been performed, by adopting both real and reduced scale objects.

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“…They can be induced by natural events, such as earthquakes, or by human actions, such as traffic, shipment, concerts, or construction works [14,15]. The vulnerability of artworks to dynamic excitations largely varies depending on their type [4,[16][17][18], and their properties [19,20], such as material, shape, dimension, age, and state of conservation.…”

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Vulnerability Assessment of Art Collections: the National Archaeological Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo (Italy)

Azzara,

D'AMBRISI,

Tanganelli

et al. 2023

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Artworks play a fundamental role in the cultural and economic asset of communities, enforcing their identity and helping the social integration. Despite their importance, they are not always adequately protected against degradation, which can be induced by the aging, atmospheric and human-induced occurrence, and catastrophic events. Earthquakes certainly represent one of the main risks for art goods; however, traffic, construction works, and shipment can also represent a threat for art goods. Therefore, the assessment of the vulnerability of art collection to dynamic excitations plays a crucial role in their conservation, and it has been collecting an increasing attention by researchers, academics, and Museums’ managers. This work focuses on the vulnerability of the art collections exhibited at the Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo. Namely, it aims at assessing the effective dynamic loading experienced by the artworks, which is a function of the dynamic propagation plaid by the foundation soil, by the building and by the displayers used for exhibition. In this study the dynamic properties of some of the displayers used for exhibiting the art collections are investigated by performing an experimental survey. The analysis of the experimental data lead to assess the proper frequencies of the displayers, which have been compared to the ones of the building and the foundation soil of the Museum.

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Resimus: A Research Project on the Seismic Vulnerability of Museums’ Collections

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Florence and the Renaissance art works: the importance of the seismic safety

Florence and the Renaissance art works: the importance of the seismic safety

Dynamic Analysis of Artifacts: Experimental Tests for the Validation of Numerical Models

Vulnerability Assessment of Art Collections: the National Archaeological Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo (Italy)

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