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Structural Health Monitoring is of major interest in many areas of structural mechanics. This paper presents a new approach based on the combination of dimensionality reduction and data-mining techniques able to differentiate damaged and undamaged regions in a given structure. [...]

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Recently, the developments in the field of ADA systems shifted from comfort oriented systems to safety oriented systems. Consequently, the complexity of testing those systems increased. This leads to a demand for reproducible, efficient and safe testing methods for ADA systems in [...]

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The current Italian Building Code provides tables with standard values of the mechanical characteristics of existing masonry. These tables refer to specific typologies, as described, according to masonry texture. As experience suggests, the way in which the [...]