WIT Press


The Use Of Nondestructive Tests On Historic Timber Structures

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

29

Pages

14

Published

1997

Size

1,681 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/STR970071

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Clara Bertolini Cestari, Roberto Gori & Lucio Bonafede

Abstract

Non destructive and partially destructive diagnosis of buildings is, currently, a very important question in the field of Civil Engineering for two main reasons. First there is the need to know, with a fairly high degree of accuracy, about the mechanical characteristics of the materials in situ in order both to draw up the structural profile of a construction and to proceed in the most correct way towards drawing up a project for the static

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