X-Vaults: a Software for the Analysis of the Stability of Masonry Cross-Vaults

Since 2003, when a stunned Italy witnessed the collapse of the school in San Giuliano di Puglia (CB) due to a major seismic event, Italian technical regulations for constructions have been subjected to continual changes and additions, until the adoption of DM 14-01-2008. It highlights the Italian trend to move towards Eurocodes. The new regulations, for how they were conceived, require professional architects and engineers structural calculations, which can not be carried out by hand, without the aid of a special structural software in Civil Engineering. In this paper the authors would like to present a software for the analysis of the stability of masonry cross-vaults, deriving from their own scientific research and which has been put at everyone’s disposal by a software-house which has shown immediately interest in the proposed topic.