Closure To 'structural Monitoring And Integrity Assessment Of Medieval Towers' By Alberto Carpinteri And Giuseppe Lacidogna

摘要

The main objection raised by the discusser concerns the fact that the role of analytical modeling in structural monitoring should have been completely disregarded in the paper under discussion. Actually, the issue was not disregarded, but only referred to in the paper (Carpinteri et al. 2005), which focused on reporting results from nondestructive testing and assessment.rnIn addition, the discusser proposes some considerations that are based on a numerical model. The conclusions that he achieves are not completely correct, since he bases his calculation on an oversimplified geometry. To give more precise results and to reply to the objections, some results of our numerical simulation are recalled in the following. For the sake of brevity, it is not possible to add the nonlinear simulation results (including cracking, evolving load scenarios and soil-structure interaction), which will be submitted to the journal in a separate paper.