ABSTRACT
Some interesting experimental tests have been developed at Laboratory of the ENEA Casaccia Research Center (New Technology Department, Rome, Italy) on some masonry arches within a national convention with the Authority of the Monumental Heritage Supervision in Benevento and Caserta Provinces as a preliminary step finalized to the strengthening for seismic risk of the San Rocco’s church in Benevento and of the S. Francesco’s bell tower in Montesarchio (Campania, Italy). More in general, the study spaces from the dynamic characterization of the considered structures, realized by means of the monitoring of environmental and forced vibrations of the churches, to the analysis of the seismic conditions at the site where the ancient structures are built, to the tests on shaking table of selected structural elements (in real and reduced scale) and of some scale models of the churches.
