Andrea Miano

Pegaso University · Department of Engineering

Civil infrastructures have gained great importance for local and regional economies because of the major role of communication and networking in modern society. The accurate assessment of their integrity from a comprehensive perspective is, indeed, increasingly encouraged by stakeholders and governments. In this regard, the behaviour of critical as...

The conventional Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) framework focuses on individual structures. However, preliminary studies are required at a large territorial scale to effectively identify the most vulnerable elements. This becomes particularly challenging in urban settings, where numerous buildings of varied shapes, ages, and structural conditio...

The Italian infrastructure network of roads and bridges is one of the most complex in the world, due to the orography of the territory. Italy is strongly interested by seismic and hydrogeological hazards and, in addition, degradation and obsolescence phenomena are common on infrastructures approaching the end of their nominal life. Furthermore, dur...

The proposed upgrade of the SND@LHC experiment for the High Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) will strongly benefit from the presence of a magnetized region, allowing for muon momentum and charge measurement. In this paper we describe an iron core magnet system that is partly integrated with the calorimeter and that is designed to respect the st...

Building resilient infrastructure is at the core of sustainable development, as evidenced by the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9. In fact, the effective operation of road networks is crucial and strategic for the smooth functioning of a nation’s economy. This is also fundamental from a sustainability perspective, as efficient transportation netwo...

Existing bridges constitute essential infrastructures of land transport and communications routes worldwide. They are often outdated and vulnerable; for this reason, monitoring and safety should be ensured for their use. The reduced economic and technical resources lead to the necessity of defining intelligent monitoring strategies for the prelimin...

The Italian infrastructure network of roads and bridges is one of the most complex in the world, due to the orography of the territory. Italy is strongly interested by seismic and hydrogeological hazards and, in addition, degradation and obsolescence phenomena are common on infrastructures approaching the end of their nominal life. Furthermore, the...

The CERN sites are in a non-negligeable earthquake prone region. Current standards in matter of seismic design cover ordinary buildings, but only partially complex research facilities and equipment like the CERN ones. The 600 m³ vacuum Decay Vessel of the proposed Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) detector is an example of research infrastructure...

The importance of managing and monitoring the network of roads and bridges is a very crucial issue in Italy for many reasons. First of all, Italy has a complicated orography and is interested by seismic and/or hydrogeological hazards. Then, degradation and obsolescence phenomena are frequent on infrastructures approaching the end of their nominal l...

The interest in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has greatly increased in the last years, giving support to the management process and safety evaluation of existing structures. In particular, non-invasive structural monitoring techniques play a crucial role in the safety assessment of existing bridges. A really promising technique is...

Quantifying the impact of modelling uncertainty on seismic performance assessment of existing buildings is non-trivial when considering the partial information available on material properties, construction details, and the uncertainty in the capacity models. This task is further complicated when uncertainty related to ground motion representation...

After rapid approval and installation, the SND@LHC Collaboration was able to gather data successfully in 2022 and 2023. Neutrino interactions from νμs originating at the LHC IP1 were observed. Since muons constitute the major background for neutrino interactions, the muon flux entering the acceptance was also measured. To improve the rejection powe...

The SHiP-charm project was proposed to measure the associated charm production induced by 400 GeV/c protons in a thick target, including the contribution from cascade production. An optimisation run was performed in July 2018 at CERN SPS using a hybrid setup. The high resolution of nuclear emulsions acting as vertex detector was complemented by ele...

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < η < 8.4. The experiment is located 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, in the TI18 tunnel. The detector is composed of a hybrid system based on an 830 kg target made of tungsten plat...

The seismic assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures is commonly carried out neglecting potential previous damage induced by other phenomena, for example those related to the actions of slow-moving settlements. Many efforts are dedicated by the research community in properly considering multi-hazard actions and their inter-relations on the...

The Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (SND@LHC) started taking data at the beginning of Run 3 of the LHC. The experiment is designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC in an energy range between 100 GeV and 1 TeV. It covers a previously unexplored pseudo-rapidity range of \(7.2<\eta <8.4...

Slow-moving landslides are very spread phenomena in Italy and worldwide. The study of their impact on the existing structures is of great interest since they can provoke more or less serious consequences for structures, facilities, and human life safety. Traditional monitoring techniques on site are usually adopted for landslides. The innovative Di...

Bridges are crucial structures of a roadway system, always exposed to both natural and anthropic hazards. Several approaches have been investigated in the past two decades to evaluate the seismic vulnerability of bridges; the development of fragility curves represents a sound tool to evaluate their performances at a large scale. This study aims at...

The uncertainty in the concrete compressive strength is one of the most challenging issues in safety checking of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. The concrete compressive strength used in the assessment can highly influence the vulnerability results and thus the retrofit strategies. The need to use less expensive and less invasive in si...

Existing national road and highway bridges require periodical inspections and, in some cases, urgent structural measures. The Italian Guidelines for risk classification and management, safety assessment and monitoring of existing bridges (LG20) outline a procedure for estimating approximately the risk associated to bridges, by defining for each of...

The Italian infrastructure network of roads and bridges is one of the most complex in the world due to the territory orography. Italy is strongly interested in seismic and hydrogeological hazards, and, in addition, degradation and obsolescence phenomena are common in infrastructures nowadays approaching the end of their nominal life. Furthermore, t...

The uncertainty in the concrete compressive strength is one of the most challenging issues in the seismic assessment of an existing RC building. This works characterizes the compressive concrete strength based on both in-situ destructive and non-destructive tests. A large set of data including (destructive) core tests and SONREB (rebound number S a...

The maintenance and inspection programs for bridges networks are effective, if they are able to quickly detect problematic performances. The limited inspection procedures must be integrated with continuous monitoring systems, which can be consulted remotely in real time. There are different traditional and innovative techniques to monitor the bridg...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a field of increasing interest and worthy of new approaches and innovative applications. Italian territory is rich of architectural and cultural heritage that needs to be managed, monitored and conserved. This work presents a possible framework for the monitoring of such heritage that is suitable for large scal...

We report the direct observation of muon neutrino interactions with the SND@LHC detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A dataset of proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=13.6 TeV collected by SND@LHC in 2022 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.8 fb^{-1}. The search is based on information from the active electronic components of...

The estimation of the combined seismic-fire risk and the optimization of interventions for buildings and infrastructures in the context of metropolitan areas represent a very actual and critical theme. In fact, different forms of hazard can affect structures throughout their existence. The occurrence of a seismic event in areas exposed to various r...

URBAN SETTLEMENTS MONITORING USING EGMS DATA THROUGH ADAFINDER TOOL

The detection and monitoring of deformation patterns induced by causes of various nature is fundamental to prevent and mitigate the associated risk. To this aim, one of the most innovative, non-invasive monitoring approaches is based on the use of satellite radar images through the advanced multi-temporal Differential Interferometry Synthetic Apert...

The SHiP experiment has been proposed at CERN to shed light on phenomena still unexplained in the framework of the Standard Model, such as the nature of dark matter, the baryonic asymmetry of the Universe and the neutrino oscillations, searching for hints of New Physics. A section of the detector will be dedicated to the study of neutrino physics w...

The new European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) opens a new prospect in the study of the ground deformation phenomena influencing structures and infrastructures, at regional scale, exploiting the huge archives of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images acquired from Sentinel-1 satellites. The research is currently oriented toward developing new methodo...

The management process and safety evaluation of existing buildings, which have often overcome their service life, can be properly supported by non-invasive structural monitoring techniques, among which multi-temporal Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (MT-DInSAR) techniques can be included. The paper follows previous works of some...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a field of increasing interest and worthy of new approaches and innovative applications. As well known, Italy boasts a unique cultural-historical heritage of monuments and archeological sites that need to be managed, particularly in a multi-hazard prone area like our country. A really appealing technique is rep...

Existing national road and highway bridges require periodical inspections and, in some cases, urgent structural measures. The Italian Guidelines for risk classification and management, safety assessment and monitoring of existing bridges (LG20) outline a procedure for estimating approximately the risk associated to bridges, by defining for each of...

Assessment of analytical structural fragility for existing buildings is one of the fundamental steps in modern performance-based design and assessment. One main feature distinguishing the assessment of existing buildings is the uncertainty in determining the structural modeling parameters. This work employs two different sampling techniques (i.e. S...

In the field of the structural engineering, the use of satellite data is oriented towards the long-term moni-toring. An automatic procedure to identify buildings in urbanized areas and give criticality deformation maps is presented in this work. The Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise algo-rithm is applied to datasets of geo...

Structural health monitoring is a crucial issue in areas with different hazard sources, such as Italy. Among non-invasive monitoring techniques, remote sensing provides useful information in supporting the management process and safety evaluations, reducing the impact of disturbances on the functionality of construction systems. The ground displace...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) field gained increasing interest during the last years, also due to the huge amount of civil structures and infrastructures near or beyond their design life, and needs to be managed, particularly in a multi-hazard prone area like Italy. In this context, the advanced multi-temporal differential interferometry synth...

Great part of the existing constructions has reached or overcome its service life. A structural assessment is not always necessary, nevertheless, it is important to monitor these structures, both for their maintenance and preservation of human lives purposes. Remote sensing techniques have proved to be useful in supporting the management process an...

The retrofit of existing structures in high seismic zones is a crucial issue in the earthquake engineering field. The interest of the research community is particularly high for the structures that do not respect current seismic codes and present structural deficiencies such as poor detailing and lack of capacity design provisions. A reinforced con...

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment is a new purpose fixed target facility proposed for the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator to search for long-lived exotic particles associated with Hidden Sectors and Dark Matter. This paper reports on the development of BIM integrated design for the SHiP experiment, applied initially to the...

We measured the surface tension of linear alkylbenzene (LAB) HYBLENE 113 mixed with Diphenyloxazole (PPO) as well as of pure LAB HYBLENE 113 as part of material studies for the liquid-scintillator based surround background tagger (SBT) in the proposed SHiP experiment. The measurement was performed using the iron wire method and the surface tension...

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for light, feebly interacting particles. In the baseline configuration, the SHiP experiment incorporates two complementary detectors. The upstream detector is designed for recoil...

Existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings can be affected by different actions that can induce permanent or transient effects on them. While applications concerning the seismic vulnerability of existing RC buildings have been largely proposed in literature, the evaluation of the structural vulnerability because of hazards different from earthquak...

The need for widespread structural safety checks represents a stimulus for the research of advanced techniques for structural monitoring at the scale of single constructions or wide areas. In this work, a strategy to preliminarily identify and rank possible critical constructions in a built environment is presented, based on the joint exploitation...

Different forms of hazard can affect structures throughout their existence. The occurrence of a seismic event in areas exposed to different risks or already affected by other phenomena is highly likely, especially in countries characterized by high seismicity and equally high hydrogeological risk, as Italy. Nevertheless, the seismic safety assessme...

In July 2018 an optimization run for the proposed charm cross section measurement for SHiP was performed at the CERN SPS. A heavy, moving target instrumented with nuclear emulsion films followed by a silicon pixel tracker was installed in front of the Goliath magnet at the H4 proton beam-line. Behind the magnet, scintillating-fibre, drift-tube and...

We measured the surface tension of linear alkylbenzene (LAB) HYBLENE 113 mixed with Diphenyloxazole (PPO) as well as of pure LAB HYBLENE 113 as part of material studies for the liquid-scintillator based surround background tagger (SBT) in the proposed SHiP experiment. The measurement was performed using the iron wire method and the surface tension...

The Italian code requires spectrum compatibility with mean spectrum for a suite of accelerograms selected for time-history analysis. Although these requirements define minimum acceptability criteria, it is likely that code-based non-linear dynamic analysis is going to be done based on limited number of records. Performance-based safety-checking pro...

The building stock around the world is exposed to different types of natural actions such as earthquakes or landslides. Italy is one of the countries worldwide most affected by landslides. Mitigation of landslide risk is a topic of great interest with specific focusing on the assessment and management of their consequences. The periodical monitorin...

The evaluation of the vulnerability of existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures as consequence of hazards different from earthquake is a poorly approached theme in literature. This work estimates the variability of the structural response of a predefined RC structures stock, partitioned based on the geo-metrical features, in order to define the...

The remote sensing technique known as Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) allows to create mean deformation velocity maps for large areas, with low costs and without the need to install any instrumentation on the ground. The DInSAR technique products are geo-referenced measurement points, therefore easily manageable in a G...

The management and the safeguard of existing buildings and infrastructures are actual tasks for structural engineering. Non-invasive structural monitoring techniques can provide useful information for supporting the management process and the safety evaluation, reducing at once the impact of disturbances on the structure’s functionality. This paper...

The present paper analyzes potential and limitations of multi-temporal Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) techniques applied for the structural monitoring and assessment of constructions affected by different external actions. A comprehensive approach for the processing, interpretation and proper use of satellite radar in...

Quantitative safety-checking is an essential part of performance-based design and retrofit of new and existing construction. The intensity-based Demand and Capacity Factor Design (DCFD) is a practical closed-form analytical safety-checking format, derived based on a set of simplifying assumptions that lends itself quite well to visual interpretatio...

The New San Giorgio Bridge has been built in a very short time between April 2019 and August 2020 in order to reconnect the highway system of the western part of Italy after the tragedy of the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, built in 1967 by prof. Riccardo Morandi. The new viaduct has a steel concrete composite closed section for the deck, a struct...

The seismic assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures is commonly carried out neglecting previous damage, eventually induced by other phenomena, although different forms of hazard can affect a structure during its existence. The coexistence of many hazard sources is very common, i.e., in countries affected by landslides, also characterized...

Dark photons are hypothetical massive vector particles that could mix with ordinary photons. The simplest theoretical model is fully characterised by only two parameters: the mass of the dark photon m $$_{\gamma ^{\mathrm {D}}}$$ γ D and its mixing parameter with the photon, $$\varepsilon $$ ε . The sensitivity of the SHiP detector is reviewed for...

Dark matter is a well-established theoretical addition to the Standard Model supported by many observations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. In this context, the existence of weakly interacting massive particles represents an appealing solution to the observed thermal relic in the Universe. Indeed, a large experimental campaign is ongoing for...

The uncertainty in the concrete compressive strength is one of the most challenging issues in the seismic assessment of an existing RC building. This works characterizes the compressive concrete strength based on both in-situ destructive and non-destructive tests. A large set of data including (destructive) core tests and SONREB (rebound number S a...

Italian code provides the option for non-linear time-history analysis for the multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) structures (NTC). A non-linear time-history analysis procedure known as “Cloud Analysis” employs the structur-al response to a suite of un-scaled ground motion records. Cloud Analysis results can be directly implemented in established proced...

A bstract Dark matter is a well-established theoretical addition to the Standard Model supported by many observations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. In this context, the existence of weakly interacting massive particles represents an appealing solution to the observed thermal relic in the Universe. Indeed, a large experimental campaign is on...

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment is a new general-purpose fixed target facility proposed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator to search for long-lived exotic particles associated with Hidden Sectors and Dark Matter. This paper reports on the structural design of SHiP’s decay volume, a > 2000 m ³ conical vessel und...

The building stock around the world is exposed to different types of natural actions such as earthquakes or landslides. In particular, Italy is one of the countries worldwide most affected by landslides. Mitigation of landslide risk is a topic of great interest for the evaluation and management of its consequences. Periodical monitoring of the land...

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment is a new general-purpose fixed target facility proposed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator to search for long- lived exotic particles associated with Hidden Sectors and Dark Matter. This paper reports on the BIM integrated design of SHiP’s decay volume, a conical steel vessel under vac...

Recent earthquakes have exposed the vulnerability of existing buildings; this is demonstrated by damage incurred after moderate-to-high magnitude earthquakes. This stresses the need to exploit available data from different sources to develop reliable seismic risk components. As far as it regards empirical fragility assessment, accurate estimation o...