Conservation and seismic strengthening of Byzantine churches in Macedonia
By: Predrag Gavrilović ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gavrilović, Predrag.
Series: GCI scientific program reports
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Earthquake resistant design -- Macedonia.; Church buildings -- Earthquake effects -- Macedonia.; Historic sites -- Earthquake effects -- Macedonia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: General considerations regarding the conservation of historic buildings in seismic zones; title: Criteria and objectives; title: Retrofitting approaches; title: Overview of Byzantine churches; title: Architecture; title: Frescoes; title: Types of Byzantine churches; title: Structural characteristics; title: Surface characteristics; title: Survey of existing Byzantine churches in Macedonia; title: Present state of selected church buildings, causes and level of damage; title: Authenticity; title: Churches selected for detailed investigation; title: The church of St. Nikita, Banjani; title: Proposed strengthening method and preliminary analysis of the retrofitted St. Nikita Church; title: Possible methods for repair and strengthening of historic structures; title: Design of the St. Nikita Church model; title: Model construction; title: Wall element tests; title: Shaking-table tests of the St. Nikita Church model; title: Tests of the original church model; title: Repair and strengthening of the damaged model; title: Tests of the repaired and strengthened church model; title: Analytical modeling of the dynamic behavior of masonry structures exposed to earthquake motions; title: Dynamic analysis of the nonlinear response of an idealized single-degree-of-freedom system; title: Dynamic equations of motions; title: Models of hysteretic behavior; title: Analytical studies and correlation of the behavior of the two models; title: Original model; title: Strengthened model; title: The bearing and deformability capacities of the model structures at the design and maximum levels of expected ground motion; title: Capacity analysis of masonry buildings; title: Mathematical model of the Byzantine church structure; title: Analysis of structural walls; title: Calculation procedure; title: Results from the MASAN program for the original St. Nikita model; title: Results for the strengthened church model; title: Bearing capacity of the church model structure; title: Capacity analysis of existing Byzantine church structures; title: Analysis of St. Nikita, Banjani; title: Analysis of St. Bogorodica Zahumska, Trpejca; title: Analysis of St. Nikola, Psaca; title: Analysis of St. Bogorodica, Matejce; title: Analysis of St. Gjorgji, Kurbinovo; title: Implementation of methods for repair and strengthening of Byzantine church structures; title: Possible methods and techniques for repair and strengthening of historic Byzantine churches; title: Repair and strengthening of historic monuments in accord with the experimentally verified methodology; title: Strengthening of the structures of three representative churches; title: Summary, conclusions, and recommendations; title: List of churches surveyed; title: Single-degree-of-freedom analysis flowchart; title: Experimental and analytical displacement and acceleration time history; title: Results of dynamic response analysis of the existing St. Nikita Church using the IZIIS hysteretic model.