INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SEISMIC AREAS

The preservation of the cultural heritage is a complex process not only because of the intrinsic characteristics of the historical buildings, but also for the simultaneous presence of real interest from the point of view of art, such as furniture and decorative elements as works like stucco, frescoes. A similar task was much more difficult in an area like the Italian one exposed to considerable natural hazards including earthquakes. With the aim to support proper preventive actions and mitigation of seismic risk, in recent times the regulatory framework has been heavily renovated. In this context it is essential the knowledge of the main formal, structural, functional characteristics of the protected works and to extend this knowledge to movable also in seismic perspective. Such an objective could be pursued through simple and rapid tools, able to characterize the object in a simple and standardized way, thus providing a hierarchical structure of information that define it and provide the essence, appreciating the quality and highlighting the criticality under exceptional actions. The aim of this thesis is to discuss and extend the approach to the structural and non-structural knowledge outlined in the "Guidelines for the evaluation and reduction of seismic risk of cultural heritage", to the movable heritage.