Author(s)

G. Pistone, G. Riva & A.M. Zorgno

Abstract

As part of several schemes to restore and qualify a number of Italian industrial complexes dating back to the second half of the 19th century, this study analyses the type and structure of chimneys built between the 1870s and the first decades of this century, mainly in the Piedmont and Veneto regions. The analyses were carried out on three typical examples for which sufficient information was available, i.e.: a 55 m high double-stack chimney (in a water scooping plant in Codigoro, Ferrara); a 47.5 m high double-stack chimney (at the Luigi Botto & Figli woollen mills of Valle Mosso, Biella); a 35 m high double-stack chimney (Stucky Mills in Venice). The numerical analysis was performed with a FEM linear program. Among the forces taken into account, we should mention in particular the action of the

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