This paper presents the activities conducted within the framework of the REVAULTs project, funded within the ERIES program of the European Commission. The primary aim of REVAULTs is to assess the seismic resilience of vaulted structures.To achieve this, a comprehensive experimental project has been defined, focusing on a full-scale vault. The mock-up representsthe lateral nave of a historic church. The experimental setup is designed to induce in-plane shear distortions on the vault, allowing for a reliable evaluation of the vault’s structural behavior under realistic seismic conditions. The vault will be damaged in a first set of tests, then repaired, strengthened, and tested again to assess the effectiveness of the strengthening. The tests will be carried out in 2025 on the JRC ELSA reaction wall in Ispra, Italy. In addition to the experimental trial, the project features a blind test competition linked to the real-scale testing, whose results will be presented during SAHC conference in 2025. This competition invites experts and research teamsto predict the vault’s response to seismic forces based on preliminary data, fostering a collaborative and competitive environment aimed at enhancing predictive modeling techniques. In particular, the paper aims at describing the aims of the project, the design of the experimental tests, and the methodological approach used for the definition of the blind test competition.

CALDERINI Chiara;  CIRABISI Chiara;  FERRERO Chiara;  BIANCHINI Nicoletta;  MENDES Nuno;  LOURENCO Paulo B.;  LAMPERTI TORNAGHI Marco;  MOLINA Francisco Javier;  PERONI Marco;  PELOSO Simone;  PODESTA Stefano;  ATHANASOPOULOU Adamantia;  TSIONIS Georgios; 

2026-04-24

SPRINGER SCIENCE + BUSINESS MEDIA

JRC142346

2211-0852 (online),    2211-0844 (print),   

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-16767-5_138,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC142346,   

10.1007/978-3-032-16767-5_138 (online),