The aqueducts are the most impressive and original building of the ancient Rome. The aqueducts moved water only by gravity, being constructed with a slight downward slope, within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. All along valleys or plains, the conduit was supported by buildings with arches, or its contents were placed to pressure in lead, ceramic or stone pipes. The aim of this work is to study and determine the slope and so to evaluate the actual flows, considering also that the area is interested by crustal movements. To evaluate it a geomatic survey of a part of the New Aniene and Claudia roman aqueducts was realised. The measured average slopes have values close to the value of 2 described in ancient texts that report the details of the realization of the Roman works. From the slopes through a hydraulic model the flow rate has been calculated. The general lowering of the study area was also highlighted through the comparison of reconstructed lines slope and those realized in 1917, approximately equal to 0.45 m.

Geomatic measurement of “New Aniene” and “Claudia” roman aqueducts for flows estimation / Baiocchi, Valerio; Alimonti, Claudio; Bonanotte, Giorgia; Molnár, Gábor. - In: IOP CONFERENCE SERIES: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. - ISSN 1757-8981. - 949:1(2020). (Intervento presentato al convegno 2nd International conference Florence Heri-Tech. The future of heritage science and technologies, HERITECH 2020 tenutosi a Firenze; Italia) [10.1088/1757-899X/949/1/012078].

Geomatic measurement of “New Aniene” and “Claudia” roman aqueducts for flows estimation

Baiocchi, Valerio
;
Alimonti, Claudio;
2020

Abstract

The aqueducts are the most impressive and original building of the ancient Rome. The aqueducts moved water only by gravity, being constructed with a slight downward slope, within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. All along valleys or plains, the conduit was supported by buildings with arches, or its contents were placed to pressure in lead, ceramic or stone pipes. The aim of this work is to study and determine the slope and so to evaluate the actual flows, considering also that the area is interested by crustal movements. To evaluate it a geomatic survey of a part of the New Aniene and Claudia roman aqueducts was realised. The measured average slopes have values close to the value of 2 described in ancient texts that report the details of the realization of the Roman works. From the slopes through a hydraulic model the flow rate has been calculated. The general lowering of the study area was also highlighted through the comparison of reconstructed lines slope and those realized in 1917, approximately equal to 0.45 m.
2020
2nd International conference Florence Heri-Tech. The future of heritage science and technologies, HERITECH 2020
Roman aqueducts; Ancient Rome; levelling; water flow; GPS
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Geomatic measurement of “New Aniene” and “Claudia” roman aqueducts for flows estimation / Baiocchi, Valerio; Alimonti, Claudio; Bonanotte, Giorgia; Molnár, Gábor. - In: IOP CONFERENCE SERIES: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. - ISSN 1757-8981. - 949:1(2020). (Intervento presentato al convegno 2nd International conference Florence Heri-Tech. The future of heritage science and technologies, HERITECH 2020 tenutosi a Firenze; Italia) [10.1088/1757-899X/949/1/012078].
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