PSI - Issue 78

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Procedia Structural Integrity 78 (2026) 1561–1568

© 2025 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of XX ANIDIS Conference organizers Keywords: BIM integration; Finite Element Models; Model Updating; Particle Swarn Optimization; Structural Health Monitoring; Abstract Most of the Europe’s culture over the centuries relied on the monumental heritage and at first there has been a lack of concern in ensuring these structures withstand horizontal forces caused by earthquakes. With the increased awareness of the damage that these events may cause to existing structures, in the field of engineering, it has been crucially important the improvement of Structural Heath Monitoring (SHM). To identify the characteristics of a structure, engineers build models of the structures that approximate, as closely as possible, the real behaviour of the buildings. These models sometimes need to be updated based on experimental data to better represent the conditions in which the buildings are found, and to improve the decision-making process, leading to the creation of a model that faithfully recreates the behaviour of the structure (Digital Twin). In this regard, Building Information Modeling (BIM) plays a fundamental role in storing all the useful information, within which the required data can be investigated. This work proposes a methodology to update finite element models (FEM) representing existing structures using Python scripts executed directly from Revit interacting with the structure. This model updating methodology makes it possible to update the model based on information derived from ambient vibration tests, such as experimental frequencies and mode shapes and sensor positions, to have an update of the structural parameters directly driven by the graphical interface of a BIM software, in which the necessary information will be stored. XX ANIDIS Conference Enhancing structural health monitoring through BIM-integrated finite element model updating Pasquale Guarino a, ∗ , Enrique Garc´ıa-Mac´ıas b , Andrea Meoni a , Filippo Ubertini a a University of Perugia, via Giuseppe Duranti n.93, Perugia PG 06125, Italy b University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Fuentenueva, Department of Structural Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering, Granada 18001, Spain

1. Introduction

Historical structures present significant challenges for structural engineers due to their age, pre-industrial construc tion techniques, and the cumulative e ff ects of alterations or damage over time, as noted by Baggio et al. (2021) and Piselli et al. (2020). Accurate understanding of the behaviour of these buildings is essential for their preservation.

∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: + 39-320-044-4338 ; E-mail address: pasquale.guarino@dottorandi.unipg.it

2452-3216 © 2025 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of XX ANIDIS Conference organizers 10.1016/j.prostr.2025.12.199