One Year Static Monitoring of the Milan Cathedral

== Abstract ==

The  paper  focuses  on  the  long-term  monitoring  of  the  Milan  Cathedral.  After  a  concise  historic  background  on  the  monument  and  the  description  of  the  sensing  devices  installed in the church, selected results obtained during the first year of static monitoring are summarized as well as the lessons learned in view of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of the Cathedral. In more details, the time evolution of different static features (i.e. strain of metallic  tie-rods  and  tilt  of  columns)  is  presented,  along  with  the  correlation  between  those  features  and  the  environmental  parameters  and  the  possible  minimization/removal  of  the  environmental effects with SHM purposes.

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