This document explains the underlying causes for the poor seismic performance of stone masonry buildings and offers techniques for improving it for both new and existing buildings. The proposed techniques have been proven in field applications, are relatively ...

Typical house occupied by low-income and middle-class families in rural areas of central Italy. The building studied in this report is located in the municipality of Nocera Umbra, province of Perugia, Umbria region, Italy. This type of building, with minor ...

This construction originated during the Middle Ages in response to the threat of militaryinvasions. The building plan is a square lattice, 5-7 meters, formed by three or four floors, with one room on each floor, and a total height of 15-20 m. It is a common ...

This is the third guideline published under the Beyond the Pavement initiative. It accompanies Bridge Aesthetics and Noise Wall Design Guidelines and addresses the issue of the visual impact of shotcrete. While shotcrete is a useful and cost effective means ...

Masonry houses with good structural performance may be constructed by appropriate construction procedures, good structural detailing and good quality control. This guide has been divided in fourteen sections following the construction procedure. Structural ...

Stone buildings using fully dressed rectangularized stone units, or cast solidblocks consisting of large stone pieces in cement concrete mix 1:3.6 may be built according to the details given in Chapter 4.Those also generally apply to the random-rubble and ...

The purpose of developing these guidelines is to provide technically soundanalytical tools and acceptable assessment criteria for the seismic evaluation of stone-masonry structures.

This is a typical residential construction type found in most Algerian urban centers, constituting 40 to 50% of the total urban housing stock. This construction, built mostly before the 1950s by French contractors, is no longer practiced. Buildings of this ...

Stone masonry is a traditional form of construction practiced for centuries in the regions where stone is locally available. It is still found in old historic centers, often in buildings of cultural and historical significance, and in developing countries ...

A rock mass is a material quite different from other structural materials used in civil engineering. It is heterogeneous and quite often discontinuous, but is one of the materials in the earth's crust, which is most used in man's construction. This chapter ...