Geotechnics and Heritage

Case Histories

Emilio Bilotta, Alessandro Flora, Stefania Lirer, Carlo Viggiani

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781138000544
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315884868
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves various cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical and administrative factors, intertwining in inextricable patterns. The complexity of the topic is such that guidelines or recommendations for intervention techniques

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Sponsor
• Cultural heritage and geotechnical engineering: An introduction
• Geotechnical issues of the Athenian Acropolis
• The role of geotechnical conditions in the foundation, expansion and preservation of the ancient town of Orvieto (Italy)
• A paradise inhabited by devils? The geotechnical risks in the city of Napoli and their mitigation
• The crossing of the historical centre of Rome by the new underground Line C: A study of soil structure-interaction for historical buildings
• Protective compensation grouting operations beneath the Big Ben Clock Tower
• Contributions of geotechnical engineering for the preservation of the Metropolitan Cathedral and the Sagrario Church in Mexico City
• The Buen Pastor Cathedral in San Sebastián
• Stability problems of leaning towers on weak soil
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Strengthening of the San Marco bell tower foundation in Venice
• Portus Julius: A complex of Roman infrastructures of late republican age