The event is sponsored by the HEaRT 2013 Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l’UNESCO Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l’Educazione, la Scienza e la Cultura 4 November VILLA RENDANO_COSENZA_ITALY 5 November UNIVERSITY CLUB_RENDE (CS)_ITALY st 1 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORIC EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT TIMBER FRAMES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA TOPICS OF CONFERENCE Historical aspects; Inspection and monitoring; Non-destructive testing; Experimental results and laboratory testing; Seismic behavior; Typical degradations; Calculations; Security evaluation; Theory of conservation; Repair techniques; Case-studies. TECHNICAL SESSIONS Historical and constructive aspects Assessment by experimental investigations Seismic assessment by modelling Conservation and strengthening Chairman of the Conference Professor RAFFAELE ZINNO KEY LECTURE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ARIO CECCOTTI, CNR Ivalsa, ITALY RANDOLPH LANGENBACH, Conservationtech Consulting, USA PAULO LOURENÇO, University of Minho, PORTUGAL GENNARO TAMPONE , ICOMOS International Wood Committee GIACOMO TEMPESTA, University of Florence, ITALY PANOS TOULIATOS, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE ELEFTHERIA TSAKANIKA, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE NICOLA RUGGIERI, University of Calabria, ITALY RAFFAELE ZINNO, University of Calabria, ITALY GENNARO TAMPONE (Chairman, ITALY, President of the ICOMOS Wood Scientific Committee); ARIO CECCOTTI(ITALY, Chief of CNR Ivalsa); HULYA DISKAYA (TURKEY, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University); PAULO LOURENÇO (PORTUGAL, University of Minho, School of Engineering); NICOLA RUGGIERI(ITALY, University of Calabria, Dep. of Modeling for Engineering); ELEFTHERIA TSAKANIKA (GREECE, National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture). With the collaboration of: ICOMOS International Wood Committee National Technical University of Athens, GREECE CNR Ivalsa, ITALY Collegio degli Ingegneri della Toscana, ITALY University of Minho, School of Engineering, PORTUGAL Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, TURKEY EXHIBITION “Strutture architettoniche lignee nella World Heritage List e altre…” Ideation and co-ordination: Gennaro Tampone, Michela Semplici FOR FURTHER INFORMATION http://smartlab.unical.it/HEaRT2013 [email protected] UNIVERSITA’ DELLA CALABRIA