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Condition assessment of heritage timber buildings in operational environments

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Due to changing environments and aging, the structural resistance of the heritage buildings has been reduced significantly. It has become crucial to monitor and protect the architectural heritage buildings. The objective of this research is to monitor and assess the performance of the heritage Tibetan timber building in operational environments. A three-storey corridor part of the typical heritage building was chosen in the study. A long-term monitoring system was installed in the building to collect the structural response and temperature. Detailed finite element model was built based on site investigation and existing documents, and updated based on the temperature-based response sensitivity using the field-monitoring data. The updated model was further evaluated using the static and dynamic analysis for condition assessment of the building in operational environments. The results show that the updated model is effective and accurate to predict the structural behaviour of the building in operational environments. Based on temperature-based response sensitivity, it is capable of tracking structure performance throughout the life-cycle allowing for condition-based maintenance and structural protection.

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Acknowledgements

The work described in this paper was supported by Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the Twelfth Five-year Plan Period on Grant 2015BAK01B02 and National Natural Science Foundation of China on Grant 51338001 and 51422801. The financial support of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) was also acknowledged.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Mengning Lyu

  2. Beijing’s Key Laboratory of Structural Wind Engineering and Urban Wind Environment, Beijing, China

    Mengning Lyu & Qingshan Yang

  3. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Sydney, NSW, 2751, Australia

    Mengning Lyu & Xinqun Zhu

  4. School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

    Qingshan Yang

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Lyu, M., Zhu, X. & Yang, Q. Condition assessment of heritage timber buildings in operational environments. J Civil Struct Health Monit 7, 505–516 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-017-0239-2

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