Seismic Assessment, Behavior and Retrofit of Heritage Buildings and Monuments

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.

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Prologue.- Protection of Historical Buildings According to Prohitech, by Federico M. Mazzolani.- The Dynamics of the Rocking Frame, by Nicos Makris and Michalis F. Vassiliou.- Seismic reliability assessment of classical columns subjected to near source ground motions, by Ioannis Stefanou, Michalis Fragiadakis, Ioannis N. Psycharis.- Towards the use of time-history analysis for the seismic assessment of masonry structures, by Andrea Penna, Maria Rota, Alessandro Galasco, Amaryllis Mouyiannou.- Rapid Seismic Assessment Procedure of Masonry Buildings with Historic Value, by Stylianos I. Pardalopoulos, Stavroula J. Pantazopoulou and Maria Th. Kontari.- Seismic vulnerability of existing masonry buildings: Nonlinear parametric analysis, by Nuno Mendes and Paulo B. Lourenço.- Towards a multiscale scheme for nonlinear dynamic analysis of masonry structures with damage, by Savvas P. Triantafyllou and Eleni N. Chatzi.- Fragility Curves and Loss Estimation for Traditional Timber-framed Masonry Buildings in Lefkas, by Leonidas Alexandros S. Kouris and Andreas J. Kappos.- Dynamic and earthquake behaviour of Greek post-byzantine churches with Foundation deformability Experimental investigation of stone Masonry material properties, by George C. Manos, Lambros Kotoulas, Vasiliki Matsou, Olympia Felekidou.- Computer Modeling and Seismic Performance Assessment of a Byzantine Basilica, by Zehra Çanan Erturul.- Effect of damage on the dynamic characteristics of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Cyprus, by Renos A. Votsis, Nicholas Kyriakides, Elia A. Tantele and Christis Z. Chrysostomou.- Dynamical characterization of typical Mexican colonial churches, by Fernando Pena and Julio Manzano.- Ongoing Research on Earthquake Behavior of Historical Minarets in Istanbul, by Eser Çakt, Carlos S. Oliveira, Jose V. Lemos, Özden Saygl, Serkan Görk and Esra Zengin.- Recording and Rehabilitation Procedures for Historic Masonry Buildings, by Constantin E. Chalioris, Vassilios E.Tsioukas and Chris G. Karayannis.- Seismic performance based assessment of the Arsenal de Milly of the medieval city of Rhodes, by S. Cattari, A.Karatzetzou, S. Degli Abbati, D. Pitilakis, C. Negulescu, K. Gkoktsi.- Post-earthquake assessment of a masonry tower by on-site inspection and operational modal testing, by Antonella Saisi and Carmelo Gentile.- Assessment of the seismic vulnerability of a masonry bell tower by non-destructive experimental techniques, by Domenico Colapietro, Alessandra Fiore, Mariella De Fino, Adriana Netti, Fabio Fatiguso and Giuseppe C. Marano.- Parametric seismic assessment of a Non-symmetric stone masonry building with flexible floors, by F.V. Karantoni, I.C. Manalis.- Study of seismic response of traditional URM houses through analytical simulation the historical core of the city of Xanthi, by M. L. Papadopoulos.- Non-linear Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Adobe Masonry Structures with Various Roof Diaphragm Configurations, by Rogiros Illampas, Dimos C. Charmpis and Ioannis Ioannou.- Authors List.