Intro -- Structural Monitoring of ARTistic and historical BUILding Testimonies -- Preface, Committees and Sponsors -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Historical and Artistic Area -- URFA: The Planned City and the Process of Medievalization -- Morphology of Roman, Islamic and Medieval Seismic Design: Pointed Arch and Ablaq -- Morphological, Typological and Structural Characters of the Old Centers in the Center of Coastal Apulia: Some Instruments for the Safeguard and the Recovery of their Architectural Heritage -- The Old City of Jerusalem between Heritage and Urban Renewal: Public Buildings and Typological Aspects -- Preventive Fire Risk Assessment of Italian Architectural Heritage: An Index Based Approach -- The Norman Tower in the Abandoned Village of Craco (MT). Meaning and Reasons of the Restoration -- Chapter 2: Structural Area -- Structural Behaviour of Historical Stone Arches and Vaults: Experimental Tests and Numerical Analyses -- Large-Scale Seismic Vulnerability Assessment Method for Urban Centres. An Application to the City of Florence -- Dynamic Monitoring and Seismic Response of a Historic Masonry Tower -- Vulnerability Reduction Procedures in Ordinary Urban Management - The Urban Building Code of Faenza -- Strength Performance of Unreinforced Brick Masonry Walls under Flexo-Compression Load. Analytical Methods -- One-Year Monitoring of a Historic Bell Tower -- Identifying Seismic Local Collapse Mechanisms in Unreinforced Masonry Buildings through 3D Laser Scanning -- Mechanical Characterization of Building Stones through DT and NDT Tests: Research of Correlations for the In Situ Analysis of Ancient Masonry -- Buildings Behavior in the Urban Fabric: The Knowledge Issue in the Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Plans -- Buildings Behaviour in Urban Fabric: The Safety Assessment Issue in the Post Earthquake Reconstruction Plans.

In Situ Investigations for the Seismic Assessment of Existing Bridges -- Mechanical Characterization of Apricena Marble by Ultrasonic Immersion Tests -- Seismic Behavior of a Masonry Chimney with Severe Cracking Condition: Preliminary Study -- Distributed Structural Monitoring for a Smart City in a Seismic Area -- Seismic Behaviour Analysis of Classes of Masonry Arch Bridges -- Analysis of Operational Modal Identification Techniques Performances and their Applicability for Damage Detection -- Identification of the Modal Properties of a Building of the Greek Heritage -- Seismic Response of a Historic Masonry Construction Isolated by Stable Unbonded Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators (SU-FREI) -- Non-Destructive Techniques and Monitoring for the Evolutive Damage Detection of an Ancient Masonry Structure -- Dynamic Analysis of a Historical Fortified Tower -- Modeling of Masonry Vaults as Equivalent Diaphragms -- Chapter 3: Computational and Technological Area -- Building Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Concept -- Dynamic Testing of Masonry Towers Using the Microwave Interferometry -- A Dynamic Identification of a Historical Building Using Accelerometers with Interface Modules and a Digital Synchronization Method -- A NN-Based Approach for Monitoring Early Warnings of Risk in Historic Buildings via Image Novelty Detection -- A Wireless Sensor Network Innovative Architecture for Ambient Vibrations Structural Monitoring -- Synchronization Issues in an Innovative Wireless Sensor Network Architecture Monitoring Ambient Vibrations in Historical Buildings -- Hearing the Buildings: Smart Monitoring through Advanced Sonification Approaches -- Hybrid Model for Measurement of Building Vulnerability -- On Modeling an Innovative Monitoring Network for Protecting and Managing Cultural Heritage from Risk Events -- Keywords Index -- Authors Index.

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the Final International Conference SMART BUILT 2014, March 27-29, 2014, Bari, Italy. The 36 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Historical and Artistic Area, Chapter 2: Structural Area, Chapter 3: Computational and Technological Area.

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