Industrial Factory, Milan, Italy

An interesting example of strengthening on an r.c. structure is the structural reinforcement of an industrial factory in Milan that was realized with the use of CFRP fabrics in order to increase the tensile strength of the r.c. beams and the strength of the joints (Fig. 10.6). 

Brigante, New Composite Materials Selection, Design, and Application, 

4 Albergo Reale dei Poveri (Bourbon Hospice for tbe Poor), Naples, Italy 

One of the most extensive HiP strengthening interventions on masonry buildings is that accomplished at the Bourbon Hospice of the Poor, also known as Fuga Palace, one of the major monumental constructions in Naples and among the largest 

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Subjects with benzene-induced hyporegenerative anemia or pancytopenia of a long-standing duration subsequently developed acute leukemia. Between 1942 and 1975, 66 cases of benzene hemopathy were seen at the Institute of Occupational Health in Milan, Italy (11 of these were leukemia) (Vigliani and Fomi 1976). The affected individuals worked in rotogravure plants, shoe factories, and other industries where benzene was used as a solvent. Benzene concentrations in the air near rotogravure machines were calculated to range between 200 and 400 ppm, with peaks up to 1,500 ppm. 

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