The Tower of Pisa (ePub)

Society. Over his long career Michele Jamiolkowski has been invited to present many general reports at International Conferences and to deliver many significant lectures throughout the world, including the James Forrest Lecture to the ICE in London, the Terzaghi Oration and the Rankine Lecture. Michele Jamiolkowski is author and co-author of more than 270 publications.

Nunziante Squeglia is Assistant Professor of Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering at University of Pisa, Italy. He is author of research papers focused on experimental soil behavior, soil-structure interaction, pile foundation, levee stability and preservation of monuments. Since 1992 he has been involved in studies related to stabilization of Pisa Tower, starting from the field experiment on electroosmotic consolidation of Pancone clay. He has been involved in preservation actions on San Piero a Grado and San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno churches (Tuscany, Italy). Since 1998 he is in charge of monitoring of the Tower and he is currently assistant member of the panel appointed to monitor the behaviour of the tower.

Carlo Viggiani is Emeritus Professor of Foundation Engineering at University of Napoli Federico II, Italy. He is author of research papers primarily focused on experimental soil behaviour, soil-structure interaction, pile foundation and preservation of monuments. He is co-author of a book on Piles and Pile Foundations published in 2012 by Taylor and Francis / CRC Press. Carlo has been President of the Technical Committee 301 (Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites) of the ISSMGE (International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering) and is now member of the same TC, appointed by the Italian Geotechnical Association. He has been involved in preservation actions on a number of monuments and historic sites and has been member of the Technical Committee in charge of the stabilization of the Pisa Tower, and is currently member of the panel appointed to monitor the behaviour of the tower.