APPLICATIONS OF THE INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY TO THE ASSESSMENT OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS: A CASE STUDY IN PISA

Measuring the thermal response of materials in building assessment has a wide range of applications concerning not only the thermophysical aspects, but also the structural ones. The last topic is particularly interesting in the context of historic buildings, where the modern tools for surface temperature measurement are capable of providing many useful information: the masonry texture and the materials detection under the plaster are the fundamentals for the evaluation of the structural behavior and for the selection of the strengthening and restoration criteria. In this regard, the full-field, contactless and real time investigation makes the infrared thermography indispensable. The thermographic technique is taken here into consideration in an emblematic case study.