Abstract: Pounding is one of the greatest sources of seismic vulnerability of pre-normative R/C structures, as they have often been built at poor distance from adjacent buildings. The effects of pounding can be particularly severe in slender modern R/C heritage structures, including civic or bell towers. An emblematic case study falling in this class of structures, i.e. a monumental R/C bell tower constructed in the early 1960s to replace the former 19 th century tower of the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore in Florence, is analyzed in this paper. In order to asse...
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Structural engineering
Civil engineering