Parsimonious AHP-DEA Integrated Approach for Efficiency Evaluation of Production Processes

An Example of Integrated Geological Survey of Geomaterials and their Weathering Forms: the Reggia di Caserta Main Façade

This paper reports a detailed study on some relevant portions of the main façades of Caserta Royal Palace (Reggia di Caserta), one of the most important Italian monuments, comparable for its impressive architecture to the Royal Palace of Versailles in France and considered the largest royal palace in the world by volume. The research was focused on the weathering pathologies affecting the stone surfaces that, in the last decades, suffered several detachments of fragments from the coatings and...

Geological reconstruction by 2D-ERT of the MaddaloniDurazzano ridge (Italy) for a railway line design

We present a geophysical study for the executive project of a railway tunnel across the Maddaloni-Durazzano carbonate ridge (southern Italy). To reconstruct the geological setting of the area, a N-S oriented electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) profile, about 4 km long, was performed, which allowed an exploration depth of about 200 m from the surface level. The results of the 2D inversion model of the ERT profile clearly highlight anomalous resistive blocks that can be associated with frac...

Landslide susceptibility assessment in the southern sector of the Tammaro River basin (Italy)

Numerous methods have been proposed in literature for the landslide susceptibility assessment at basin scale using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Among them, statistical methods have became increasingly popular in recent years. In particular, the Homogeneous Territorial Unit (HTU) method [DE VITA et al., 1994; GUIDA et al., 1996; CALCATERRA et al., 2010] has been applied in this work, which is well suited to problems of slope stability in structurally complex formations [ESU, 1977]. ...