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Seismic Assessment, Behavior and Retrofit of Heritage Buildings and Monuments

  • Includes methods guiding the retrofit design of historical buildings
  • Includes methods for computer simulation of 3-D building systems and benchmark calibrations with test results
  • Includes fragility curves for quantifying the seismic risk of historical city neighborhoods in the event of the design earthquake
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (COMPUTMETHODS, volume 37)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The Dynamics of the Rocking Frame

    • Nicos Makris, Michalis F. Vassiliou
    Pages 37-59
  3. Seismic Reliability Assessment of Classical Columns Subjected to Near Source Ground Motions

    • Ioannis Stefanou, Michalis Fragiadakis, Ioannis N. Psycharis
    Pages 61-82
  4. Towards the Use of Time-History Analysis for the Seismic Assessment of Masonry Structures

    • Andrea Penna, Maria Rota, Alessandro Galasco, Amaryllis Mouyiannou
    Pages 83-111
  5. Rapid Seismic Assessment Procedure of Masonry Buildings with Historic Value

    • Stylianos I. Pardalopoulos, Stavroula J. Pantazopoulou, Maria Th. Kontari
    Pages 113-137
  6. Effect of Damage on the Dynamic Characteristics of St. Nicholas Cathedral in CYPRUS

    • Renos A. Votsis, Nicholas Kyriakides, Elia A. Tantele, Christis Z. Chrysostomou
    Pages 281-295
  7. Dynamical Characterization of Typical Mexican Colonial Churches

    • Fernando Peña, Julio Manzano
    Pages 297-319
  8. Ongoing Research on Earthquake Behavior of Historical Minarets in Istanbul

    • Eser Çaktı, Carlos S. Oliveira, José V. Lemos, Özden Saygılı, Serkan Görk, Esra Zengin
    Pages 321-339
  9. Recording and Rehabilitation Procedures for Historic Masonry Buildings

    • Constantin E. Chalioris, Vassilios E. Tsioukas, Chris G. Karayannis
    Pages 341-364
  10. Seismic Performance Based Assessment of the Arsenal de Milly of the Medieval City of Rhodes

    • S. Cattari, A. Karatzetzou, S. Degli Abbati, D. Pitilakis, C. Negulescu, K. Gkoktsi
    Pages 365-392
  11. Assessment of the Seismic Vulnerability of a Masonry Bell Tower by Non-destructive Experimental Techniques

    • Domenico Colapietro, Alessandra Fiore, Mariella De Fino, Adriana Netti, Fabio Fatiguso, Giuseppe C. Marano
    Pages 409-427

About this book

This book assembles, identifies and highlights the most recent developments in Rehabilitation and retrofitting of historical and heritage structures. This is an issue of paramount importance in countries with great built cultural heritage that also suffer from high seismicity, such as the countries of the eastern Mediterranean basin. Heritage structures range from traditional residential constructions to monumental structures, ancient temples, towers, castles, etc. It is generally recognized that these structures present particular difficulties in seismic response calculation through computer simulation due to the complexity of the structural system which is, generally, inhomogeneous, with several contact problems, gaps/joints, nonlinearities and brittleness in material constituents. This book contains selected papers from the ECCOMAS Thematic Conferences on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN) that were held in Corfu, Greece in 2011 and Kos, Greece in 2013. The Conferences brought together the scientific communities of Computational Mechanics, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering in an effort to facilitate the exchange of ideas in topics of mutual interest and to serve as a platform for establishing links between research groups with complementary activities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Ioannis N. Psycharis

  • Dept of Civil and Environmental Eng., University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Stavroula J. Pantazopoulou

  • Institute of Structural Analysis & Antiseismic Research, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Manolis Papadrakakis

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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