San Gimignano

Digital Acquisition and Structural Analysis of the "Rognosa" Tower in San Gimignano

various types of expertise and technologies. The St@rt project (Sciences and Technologies for the Artistic, Architectural and Archaeological Tuscan heritage), funded by the region of Tuscany (Italy) for the three year period 2007-2010, aimed at integrating different research and administrative expertise in the field of cultural heritage. The project’s activities focused on the 13th century “Rog...

The “Rognosa” Tower in San Gimignano: Digital Acquisition and Structural Analysis

The paper describes the research activities conducted on the 13 century Rognosa tower in San Gimignano (Siena, Italy), the historic town inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List in 1990. A structural nonlinear analysis of the tower has been performed via the freeware finite element code NOSA. The finite element mesh of the tower has been generated using a three-dimensional digital model of t...

Monitoring Architectural Heritage by Wireless Sensors Networks: San Gimignano — A Case Study

This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) used to monitor the health state of architectural heritage in real-time. The WSN has been deployed and tested on the "Rognosa" tower in the medieval village of San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. This technology, being non-invasive, mimetic, and long lasting, is particularly well suited for long term monitoring and on-line diagnosis of the conserv...

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