Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structural Cracking of the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore
Year: 2014
Type: report
Abstract: Since its construction in 1436, the cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenze, Italy has developed significant cracks caused by earthquakes.Mathematical models are being developed to study how the building shakes in earthquakes and also how it could be stabilized against further damage by the addition of reinforcing structures.Descriptions of the location, structure and size of cracks and existing internal reinforcements are important ingredients in these models, but since these data have been gathered from visual inspections and historical records, they may be incomplete.In this note, we describe how measuring the passage of cosmic ray muons through the structure could, for the first time, yield important information about internal damage, or unknown internal structures.The muon technique is non-invasive, and uses naturally occurring cosmic rays.
DOI: 10.2172/1156847
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1549656278