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The Cathedral Basilica of Manizales is one of the most representative buildings of the so-called "republican architecture", boosted in a remarkable and singular way after the fires of the 1920s in the city of Manizales, Colombia. Its "eclectic neo-gothic" design [...]

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Seismic actions have been a great challenge for structures in the structural engineering community, and the need for further developments has been approved by catastrophic seismic events at each time. Reproducing the dynamic behavior of structures with an acceptable [...]

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The paper deals with the strengthening of thin masonry vaults by means of a CRM (Composite Reinforced Mortar) strengthening technique based on Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) meshes embedded in a 30 mm thick mortar matrix, applied at the vault extrados or intrados and [...]

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As one of the main historical construction materials, masonry is abundant among the architectural heritage of earthquake-prone areas of the Mediterranean countries. Earthquake mitigation approaches are now focusing on strengthening solutions based on compatible and [...]

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The need for seismic retrofitting on a historical masonry heritage structure raises questions that go beyond the improvement of its seismic behaviour after the intervention. Indeed, principles as minimum intervention or reversibility must be considered before a consensus decision [...]