Author(s)

S. Barba & F. Fiori

Abstract

It is very difficult to get to know a building since its construction goes back to different histoncal evolutions and the analysis of its wall structures [7]. Therefore it is from this point of view that we have considered our study concerning part of Palazzo Vecchio as a further contnbution to the researchas already made, for better comprehension of such a complexity. Our work may be divided into two parts: the first part develops throughout the study of the real condition through a survey in the scale of 1/50 [6] and through the analysis of loads of the angle between via della Ninna e via dei Leoni (fig. 1); in the second part the results achieved are re-eleborated in a finite element modeling by using the computer program ANSYS5.0a with the aim of examining the stressing state. The second part of ou

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