Design of timber beams in bending according to DB SE Madera (CTE)

This document shows how to design a solid timber beam in simple bending considering only bending moments according to the Spanish Code: Basic Document Structural Safety: Timber (DB SE M is the acronyms in Spanish) The resistance condition is applied to a worked example, and a proposed exercise in included in order to involve the student in practising the procedure.Guardiola Víllora, AP. (2020). Design of timber beams in bending according to DB SE Madera (CTE). http://hdl.handle.net/10251/144248DE

Mohr's circle for plane stress

This document shows how to draw Mohr¿s stress circle for a planar state of stress. Instructions, step by step are given and applied to a worked example. A proposed exercise is included in order to involve the student in practising the procedure.Guardiola Víllora, AP. (2019). Mohr's circle for plane stress. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/122817DE

Performance based probabilistic seismic risk assessment for urban heritage. An example in Pla del Remei Area (Valencia)

The assessment of the seismic behaviour of historic residential buildings and the estimation of their possible losses in the event of an earthquake, is a must for defining strategic mitigation plans to prevent irreplaceable heritage losses. In this study an integrated performance based probabilistic risk assessment methodology is developed. An archival study and a field survey allow to identify architectural and construction characteristics of heritage residential buildings in urban areas and determine realistic structural models. These are analysed by using a limit state approach, coded in the FaMIVE method, considering different construction hypotheses, to produce capacity curves which support the identification of a discrete number of typologies representative of the entire building stock in the area. Their fragility functions are then derived using the modified N2 method. Because of the difficulty in quantifying the expected probable losses in purely economic terms, given the heritage value of these assets, losses are computed in terms of damaged floor surface area and mean damage ratio. These have been obtained through the earthquake loss estimation platform SELENA, considering different possible seismic scenarios. The procedure is applied to masonry residential buildings in Pla del Remei area of Valencia, Spain, built between the end of the 19th Century and the end of the Spanish War (1939). This neighbourhood embodies the cultural values, construction techniques and historic legacy of a new and brief era of modernity, inspired by the new urban theories and architectural styles of Eclecticism and Modernism. Despite Valencia being located in an area of low to moderate seismicity, the results show that the maximum percentage of built damaged area ranges from 5.8 to 11.6% for 475 years return period, increasing to 33.59–51.59% for 975 years return period. The high level of resolution of the study allows mapping and identifying the structures at higher risk and is therefore a valuable tool to support sensitive and targeted retrofitting policies

Editorial: Interactions Between Education, Practice of Physical Activity and Psychological Well-Being

During the elaboration of this Research Topic, our dear colleague Valerii Malkin from the Federal University of the Urals (Russia) passed away. We hope that this work constitutes some kind of homage to his person and academic figure, very relevant in the complex effort to make visible the Russian Psychology of Sport, of such a long and fruitful tradition in past years. AM-M was a recipient of a José Castillejo Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (CAS19/00265)

Involving society in the enhancement of old city centres

[EN] Old city centres should be known, valued and preserved as part of the history and of the cultural and architectural heritage of cities. For this purpose, it is common practice to declare them sites of cultural interest, and to list their residential buildings with different grades of protection. However, for the inhabitants of the city centres, the listing status of their residential buildings is perceived as a problem, rather than an attractive added value for their property, since it limits their possibilities of intervention (refurbishment, expansion, elevation, etc). On many occasions, the lack of recognition of this vernacular architecture or humble architectural heritage has, as a consequence, the abandonment or reduction of maintenance as well as the alteration or destruction of the specific features that make them unique (or even essential) as part of the urban scene. In order to involve both the inhabitants of the old city centres and the visitors in the enhancement of these areas and to guarantee their preservation, different educational actions can be undertaken. To clearly define these actions, the first step is to carry out a study on the perception that owners and tenants have of this type of architecture. This paper proposes a series of questions to perform a survey among the citizens in order to evaluate the social opinion. Finally, this paper suggests a set of actions to be taken to improve the conception the citizenship has about the values of old city centres.Guardiola Víllora, AP.; Basset Salom, L. (2022). Involving society in the enhancement of old city centres. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 615-622. https://doi.org/10.4995/HERITAGE2022.2022.1423761562

Performance based probabilistic seismic risk assessment for urban heritage. An example in Pla del Remei Area (Valencia)

The assessment of the seismic behaviour of historic residential buildings and the estimation of their possible losses in the event of an earthquake, is a must for defining strategic mitigation plans to prevent irreplaceable heritage losses. In this study an integrated performance based probabilistic risk assessment methodology is developed. An archival study and a field survey allow to identify architectural and construction characteristics of heritage residential buildings in urban areas and determine realistic structural models. These are analysed by using a limit state approach, coded in the FaMIVE method, considering different construction hypotheses, to produce capacity curves which support the identification of a discrete number of typologies representative of the entire building stock in the area. Their fragility functions are then derived using the modified N2 method. Because of the difficulty in quantifying the expected probable losses in purely economic terms, given the heritage value of these assets, losses are computed in terms of damaged floor surface area and mean damage ratio. These have been obtained through the earthquake loss estimation platform SELENA, considering different possible seismic scenarios. The procedure is applied to masonry residential buildings in Pla del Remei area of Valencia, Spain, built between the end of the 19th Century and the end of the Spanish War (1939). This neighbourhood embodies the cultural values, construction techniques and historic legacy of a new and brief era of modernity, inspired by the new urban theories and architectural styles of Eclecticism and Modernism. Despite Valencia being located in an area of low to moderate seismicity, the results show that the maximum percentage of built damaged area ranges from 5.8 to 11.6% for 475 years return period, increasing to 33.59–51.59% for 975 years return period. The high level of resolution of the study allows mapping and identifying the structures at higher risk and is therefore a valuable tool to support sensitive and targeted retrofitting policies.Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. Part of this research project was developed by Prof. Guardiola at University College London, during the period from the beginning of March to the end of July 2020, during the highest period of contagion and restrictions of the Covid19 pandemic, within the framework of the Spanish Mobility Grant Program Programa de Estancias de Movilidad de profesores e investigadores en centros extranjeros, incluido el programa “Salvador de Madariaga” 2019 funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Prof. D’Ayala acknowledges the UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering at UCL, for partially support her involvement in this research activity

Propuesta de intervención para la consecución de las competencias en educación física a través del apoyo a la autonomía

El objetivo de este trabajo fue diseñar una propuesta de intervención, tras la revisión de toda la literatura existente en torno al tema que estamos abordando, en la que el docente pueda visualizar de manera clara y precisa cómo y en qué momento se implementan las competencias clave en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y cómo éstas mismas son la base del proceso, siempre desde un punto de vista de apoyo a la autonomía. Para ello, me he servido del artículo publicado por (Moreno-Murcia et al., 2021) en el que se presenta una propuesta de progresión de 25 estrategias motivacionales de apoyo a la autonomía, que han sido objeto de un proceso de modelización para optimizar al máximo su implementación. En este caso, la propuesta se centró en la educación primaria en el contexto de la Educación Física. Las conclusiones se enfocan a la necesidad de diseñar propuestas prácticas enfocadas a la optimización de los procesos motivacionales que participan en el escenario de enseñanza-aprendizaje a través de metodologías activas que sitúen al estudiante en el centro del proceso

Modelización en Architrave® de losas aligeradas de hormigón armado con Elementos Finitos

En este documento se explica cómo modelizar, por medio de Elementos Finitos, losas aligeradas de Hormigón Armado con el programa de análisis y cálculo de estructuras Architrave®Guardiola Víllora, AP. (2021). Modelización en Architrave® de losas aligeradas de hormigón armado con Elementos Finitos. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/168360DE