RESEARCH ARTICLE
Cultural Heritage and Earthquake: The Case Study of “Santa Maria Della Carità” in Ascoli Piceno
Francesco Clementi*, Enrico Quagliarini, Francesco Monni, Ersilia Giordano, Stefano Lenci
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
Issue: Suppl-5, M5
First Page: 1079
Last Page: 1105
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-11-1079
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501711011079
Article History:
Received Date: 14/10/2016Revision Received Date: 7/02/2017
Acceptance Date: 12/04/2017
Electronic publication date: 29/12/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
In October 2016, two major earthquakes occurred in Marche region in the Centre of Italy, that resulted in widespread damage. The second one strokes Norcia, Visso, Arquata del Tronto, Accumoli and Amatrice, causing a lot of damages to cultural heritage of the cities of Tolentino, San Severino, Camerino and Ascoli Piceno, where the church of Santa Maria della Carità is located.
Introduction:
The church has high historical, architectural and social value for the city of Ascoli Piceno, because it is the only one that is opened to the devotees all time in the day and night. From the structural point of view, the church has a long and important annex to the north, which was later built with respect to the church, and after the L’Aquila earthquakes (2009) damages, the church was subjected to a retrofit intervention, in order to obtain a better “box-like behavior”.
Objective:
This paper addresses how the relevant annex influenced the seismic response of this historical complex and how, more generally, this kind of asymmetric mass may affect the behavior of historic churches.
Results and Conclusion:
The results indicate that the presence of annex plays a significant role in the dynamic response of the church and affects the distribution of damages in the whole building. The results of the seismic simulation agree with the observed damage.
