The Bartolomeo Ammannati’s Fountain: an artifact in progress

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

“…The equilibrium between demand and capacity provides a limit value for the horizontal acceleration, which has been compared to the spectra provided for the site by the Italian Technical Code [31], by assuming a Fundamental Period equal to 0 sec (since the sculptures have been assumed as perfectly rigid), a nominal life equal to 50 years and a soil-type B (see Section 3.2). As a result of the simplified analysis, the amplification factor, fa, has been found for each considered Return Period, according to the NTC 2018 instructions [31,32]. In Figure 4 the values found for the Vulnerability Index, defined as 1/fa, have been shown.…”

“…In Figure 4 the values found for the Vulnerability Index, defined as 1/fa, have been shown. Further and more detailed results can be found in [15,29,32]. The Finite Element analysis has been performed by using different analytical procedures, differing from each other for the assumed description of materials (elastic and inelastic) and the interface behavior between the statues and their supports.…”

“…As a consequence, a reliable classification of the foundation soil requires to check the consistenceand the exact depth -of the uppermost layers of the soil; according to the general information currently collected, the soil could belong to the classes B, C or D, depending of the depth and density of the single layers. In some of the performed analyses [32] different soil classes have been assumed for the foundation soil, whilst in the most part of the investigations [25,27,33] the soil-type B, which has the higher probability to correspond to the foundation soil, has been assumed. Some investigations have been planned to check the foundation soil, in order to define the mechanical properties of the most superficial layers.…”