Buildings: Villa Reale Monza

Case study: SOFO, ADAM System

Historic Building monitoirng
Deformation of masonry
Data used to obtimize retrofit design

Project Description

Summary: During the renovation of the whole 'Villa Reale' building, many structural wall of that building will be monitored.

Clients: Tecniter srl

Place: Monza (Italy)

Period: 2000 - N/A

Installation: Tecniter srl

Structure's short description: The main structural walls are liable of movement caused by renovation works such as vibrations, yielding and unexpected cracks.

Aim of monitoring: The sensors are installed between structural walls in order to see convergence or relevant movements during the renovation work. The installation has been done one year before work starts allowing the monitoring of movements caused by seasonal influences.

Number of sensor: 0

Main Results: N/A

Bibliography:

Application of SHM techniques in the restoration of historical buildings: the Royal Villa of Monza , A. Del Grosso, A. Torre, m. Rosa, B. Lattuada, 2nd European Conference on Health Monitoring, July 7-9, Munich, Germany, 2004

Monitoring of Heritage Structures and Historical Monuments Using Long-Gage Fiber Optic Interferometric Sensors - An Overview , Branko Glisic, Daniele Inaudi, Daniele Posenato, Angelo Figini, Nicoletta Casanova, The 3rd International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure - SHMII-3, November 13-16, on conference CD, 2007

Fibre Optic Methods for Structural Health Monitoring , Branko Glisic and Daniele Inaudi, Johh Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2007