The Agrigento Cathedral was built about nine centuries ago on the edge of a steep slope made up of alternating inclined layers of soft calcarenites and fine-grained soils; its behaviour has never been satisfactory especially as far as the North aisle is concerned. Many corrective measures have been attempted during its lifespan and also a few years ago. They proved invariably unsuccessful. Recent geotechnical investigations, referred to in the paper, permitted to find out that the main cause of the Cathedral distress is a sliding mechanism involving the upper zone of the slope underlying the North aisle; consequently the essential requirement for the preservation of the Cathedral is the stabilisation of the slope.

Valore, C., Ziccarelli, M. (2013). The preservation of the Agrigento Cathedral. In Challanges and Innovations in Geotechnics (pp.3141-3144). Parigi : CRC - Press.

The preservation of the Agrigento Cathedral

VALORE, Calogero;ZICCARELLI, Maurizio
2013-01-01

Abstract

The Agrigento Cathedral was built about nine centuries ago on the edge of a steep slope made up of alternating inclined layers of soft calcarenites and fine-grained soils; its behaviour has never been satisfactory especially as far as the North aisle is concerned. Many corrective measures have been attempted during its lifespan and also a few years ago. They proved invariably unsuccessful. Recent geotechnical investigations, referred to in the paper, permitted to find out that the main cause of the Cathedral distress is a sliding mechanism involving the upper zone of the slope underlying the North aisle; consequently the essential requirement for the preservation of the Cathedral is the stabilisation of the slope.
4-set-2013
XVIII International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Parigi
2-6 Settembre 2013
18
2013
4
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Valore, C., Ziccarelli, M. (2013). The preservation of the Agrigento Cathedral. In Challanges and Innovations in Geotechnics (pp.3141-3144). Parigi : CRC - Press.
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