Abstract
This paper describes the accelerometric monitoring of buildings carried out by the Italian Department of Civil Protection (DPC) during the seismic aftershock sequence that hit Abruzzi (Italy) in 2009. This activity is illustrated in the framework of the whole DPC action in the field of seismic monitoring of civil structures. To this end a short description of the “Seismic Observatory of Structures”, a permanent seismic monitoring network managed by DPC, is provided, and methods used for selecting, studying and modeling structures are presented. Particular attention is devoted to procedures and techniques used for data analysis and damage assessment. Finally, the case study of the town hall building of Pizzoli is shown to illustrate the results that can be obtained from measurement of the building response to aftershocks.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Billings SA, Chen S (1988) Extended model set, global data and threshold model identification of severely non-linear systems. Int J Control 50: 1897–1923
Dolce M, Ponzo FC, Auletta G, Di Cesare A, Ditommaso R, Mossucca A (2007) A fast method for structural health monitoring of strategic buildings. World Forum on Smart Mater. and Smart Structures Technology (SMSST’07), Chongqing and Nanjing
Ewins DJ (2000) Modal testing—theory practice and application, 2nd edn. Research Studies Press LTD, Philadelphia
Fabbrocino G, Ranieri C, Laorenza C, Di Carluccio A, Dolce M, Manfredi G (2010) Post-earthquake experimental dynamic identification and structural assessment of a public steel building in L’Aquila. In: 4th int. conf. on steel & composite structures, 21–23 July (in press)
Gabor D (1946) Theory of communication. J IEE 93: 429–457 (London)
Lamonaca BG, Spina D, Gabriele S (2007) An original method for the damage assessment of reinforced concrete buildings, based on experimental data provided by permanent seismic monitoring systems (in Italian). In: Proc. of 10th conf. of Italian nat. association of earthq. eng., Pisa, Italy
Ljung L (1987) System identification theory for the user. Prentice Hall, Nee Jersey
Papoulis A (1984) Signal analysis. McGraw Hill Int. Edition, Singapore
Park YJ, Ang AHS (1985) Mechanistic seismic damage model for reinforced concrete. J Struct Eng ASCE 111(4): 722–739
Picozzi M, Ditommaso R, Parolai S, Mucciarelli M, Milkereit C, Sobiesiak M, Di Giacomo D, Gallipoli MR, Pilz M, Vona M, Zschau J (2009) Real time monitoring of structures in task force missions: the example of the Mw = 6.3 Central Italy Earthquake, April 6. Natural Hazards, Published online, 17 November. Springer Science+Business Media B.V
Spina D, Valente C, Tomlinson GR (1996) A new procedure for detecting nonlinearity from transient data using the Gabor transform. Nonlinear Dyn 11: 235–254
Spina D, De Angelis R, Falzone G, Gerard R, Nicoletti M, Palma F (1998) Monitoring and interpretation of the dynamic response of buildings to seismic aftershocks of the recent seismic sequence in Umbria (in Italian). Ingegneria Sismica XV(1): 36–44
Spina D, Valente C (2002) Monitoring of structural response for real time evaluation of seismic damage. In: 12th Eur.conf. earthq. eng., London, 9–13 September
Spina D, Nicolett M, Pizzari A, Falzone G, Gerard R, Marchioni M (2004) The earthquake of 2002 in Molise and Puglia: monitoring the dynamic response of buildings to seismic aftershocks (in Italian). Ingegneria Sismica XXI(1): 18–25
Welch PD (1967) The use of fast Fourier transform for the estimation of power spectra: a method based on time averaging over short, modified periodograms. IEEE Trans. on Audio Electroacoust. AU-15, June, 70–73
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Spina, D., Lamonaca, B.G., Nicoletti, M. et al. Structural monitoring by the Italian Department of Civil Protection and the case of 2009 Abruzzo seismic sequence. Bull Earthquake Eng 9, 325–346 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-010-9232-4
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-010-9232-4