Protection of Historical Constructions Proceedings of PROHITECH 2025, Volume 2

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions (PROHITECH), held in Naples, Italy, on March 26-28, 2025. The conference topics encompass structural and earthquake engineering, intervention strategies, materials and technologies, digital documentation, architecture and urban planning, cultural heritage, all of which represented by a showcase of case studies covering different construction materials, as well as sustainability, energy efficiency, and adaptation to climate changes. As such the book represents an invaluable, up-to-the-minute tool, providing an essential overview of protection of historical constructions, and offers an important platform to researchers, engineers and architects.

BEHAVIORAL COMPARISON OF INDIVIDUAL AND AGGREGATED STRUCTURAL UNITS IN TIMISOARA BEFORE AND AFTER AN INTEGRATED SEISMIC-ENERGY RETROFIT INTERVENTION.- SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF MASONRY CHURCHES IN BONDENO: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DAMAGE INDICES.- Seismic behaviour assessment of masonry building aggregates of small historical centres: a case study in the Basilicata region of Italy.- Enhancing Earthquake Resilience of Historical Monuments: A Comparative Study for the 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquake.- Assessing The Residual Capacity of Damaged Buildings: A Mechanical Approach for Future Perspectives.- The February 6th 2023, seismic sequence in Turkey: Damage of masonry buildings in Antakya, Hatay.- Subsoil geophysical conditions and seismic response of the Mining Palace, Mexico.- SEISMIC EXPOSURE MODEL AT REGIONAL AND OVER-REGIONAL SCALES TO ANALYSE LOCAL MASONRY BUILDING TYPOLOGIES THROUGH THE CARTIS DATABASE: THE APPLICATION ON NORTHERN ITALY.- Rocking steel coupled frames for seismic retrofit of RC buildings.- A design method for seismic retrofit of RC buildings using dissipative exoskeletons.- Analysis of the Failure Modes of Historical Buildings Damaged by Multiple Earthquakes.- Seismic retrofitting of historical masonry structures by FRCM systems subjected to degradation phenomena.- Nonlinear analyses of industrial steel buildings with semi-rigid joints.- Recommendations for Seismic Assessment of Heritage Buildings and Methods of Strengthening.- A multi-performance assessment methodology for the seismic and energy retrofit of buildings.- Most vulnerable building technical elements in a multi-hazard scenario.- Fragility Curves for Low-Rise Residential Masonry Buildings in Low Seismicity Regions.- Seismic Assessment of Historical Masonry Structures in Famagusty Using Finite Element Modeling.- Simplified vulnerability model for masonry bell towers based on digital elevation model data.- Mechanical modelling for simplified seismic analysis of existing RC churches and fragility curves.- SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND REHABILITATION OF A HISTORIC MASONRY BUILDING COMPLEX IN NAPLES.- Structural survey and empirical seismic vulnerability assessment of churches in the historical center of Cusco, Peru.- On the effectiveness of pre-stressed steel strips for solving shear failures in existing reinforced concrete buildings: experimental results.