By Ahmed Elyamani, Pere Roca
ABSTRACT
Assessment of seismic safety of historical structures is a challenging task because the information available
about the assessed structure is usually limited. Therefore, it is often necessary to exploit a number of
integrated investigation activities to increase the level of knowledge about the historical structure under
consideration. Thus, in the case of any need for providing the structure with strengthening intervention, this
intervention will be a minimal and any unnecessary strengthening operations will be avoided. This paper
presents a literature review carried out to cover the current state-of-the-art of a number of investigation
activities carried out integrally for the seismic safety assessment of historical structures. It is presented in
two parts. In this first part, the covered topic is the dynamic investigation of historical structures which
includes the dynamic identification tests, the dynamic monitoring, and the modal parameters identification
methods with the classical and the advanced techniques like the peak picking and the stochastic subspace
identification.
