Ricerc@Sapienza

Ancient bronze statues mainly require material integrity assessment and restoration.
Restoration may include also the update of the museum exhibition, defining new structural
frames and fragment re-composition to preserve the statue and improve the interpretation of the
original aspect. This paper proves how engineering methods (such as Finite Element Analysis,
Computer Aided Design modelling, Reverse Engineering) may assist cultural heritage experts
and restorers in these tasks. It presents the activities made together with the Museo Nazionale

The structural health monitoring (SHM) of an infrastructure is of fundamental importance for the structure and people safety. Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors allow to design for each application, a tailored array of quasi-distributed sensors integrated to the infrastructure. To ensure the structural integrity of the railways is crucial to verify that the infrastructures comply with safety requirements to carry out their task.