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Protection and Retrofit Methods of Historic Buildings
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Protection and Retrofit Methods of Historic Buildings

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2193

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Dr. Lipeng Zhang

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School of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Interests: mechanical properties, strength criterion and constitutive modelling of wood; seismic analysis and performance improvement of traditional timber structures
Dr. Junxiao He

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School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: traditional timber structure; wooden joint; seismic performance; structural analysis
Prof. Dr. Qifang Xie

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College of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology, Xi'an, China
Interests: timber structure; ancient timber structure; seismic behaviour
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Historic buildings are one of the important cultural heritages of humanity, with important cultural, artistic and scientific value. Scientific protection of historic buildings is an important way to inherit world cultural heritage. However, the performance degradation of historic buildings is severe under various disasters. There is growing interest to explore the damage types, the damage mechanisms, as well as the degradation mechanism of the disaster-resistance performance of historic buildings. On this basis, it is also crucial to establish a set of scientific performance degradation evaluation methods, appropriate disaster prevention and reinforcement design theories to scientifically protect historical buildings.

In order to promote the in-depth development of scientific research in the historic building protection field, this Special Issue aims to report on the latest research achievements in the field of historical building protection and retrofit methods. Our interests include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Mechanical analysis and evaluation of disaster resistance performance of historic buildings, which includes mechanical analysis, damage exploration and statistical analysis; the disaster resistance performance degradation mechanism of damaged structures and the disaster resistance performance evaluation theory and methods of damaged historic buildings;
  • Performance improvement theory and methods of historic building materials, key components and connections, key lateral resistant units and structural systems using new reinforcement materials and technologies;
  • New ideas, theories and approaches in preventive protection of historic buildings; theoretical application and practice of novel disaster resistance protection technologies.

Dr. Lipeng Zhang
Dr. Junxiao He
Prof. Dr. Qifang Xie
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • damage exploration
  • disaster resistance protection
  • performance degradation
  • mechanical analysis
  • performance evaluation
  • performance improvement
  • novel protection theory

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Experimental Study and Effectiveness Evaluation on the Rapid Antiquing of Red Sandstone in Ancient Buildings Restoration
by Dunwen Liu, Xianqing Meng, Tao Ao and Kunpeng Cao
Buildings 2024, 14(3), 751; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14030751 - 11 Mar 2024
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As there are few cases of red sandstone rapid antiquing in ancient buildings and as it is difficult to reproduce, this paper carried out an experimental study and effect evaluation assessment on red sandstone rapid antiquing in the restoration of ancient buildings, based [...] Read more.
As there are few cases of red sandstone rapid antiquing in ancient buildings and as it is difficult to reproduce, this paper carried out an experimental study and effect evaluation assessment on red sandstone rapid antiquing in the restoration of ancient buildings, based on a restoration project of an ancient town in Ganzhou. The method and the implementation process of red sandstone rapid antiquing are proposed by starting from color antiquing and texture antiquing. By controlling the concentration of red mud, grass ash, and carbon black in color coatings as variables, using the HSV (hue, saturation, value) color space and Tamura texture features (roughness, contrast, orientation) to quantitatively analyze the antiquing effect, an analytical model for evaluating the red sandstone antiquing effect based on image processing was established. The results showed that among all the antiquing groups, the group that used white cement, green zeolite, imitation greenery, red clay, grass ash, and 5 mL/L carbon black liquid at the same time had the best effect, with a qualified rate of 90%. The analytical model can improve the evaluation efficiency of red sandstone antiquing and avoid errors caused by subjective factors. With feasibility and practicability, the model is conducive for new red sandstone to meet the requirements of ancient building restoration through rapid antiquing. It provides a scientific basis and technical reference for red sandstone antiquing in stone cultural relics and ancient building restoration. Full article
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Wooden Beams Modal Damage Identification Parameters Based on Strain
by Yu Cao, Zhaobo Meng, Feifei Gao, Liwei Zhang, Xiancai Ren, Huanzhi Jiang and Rong Hu
Buildings 2023, 13(12), 3035; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13123035 - 06 Dec 2023
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This study completely investigates the damage detection problem based on strain modal characteristics using simply supported wooden beams as the research object. First, modal analysis was performed, and finite element models of both damaged and undamaged timber beams were created using ABAQUS. Second, [...] Read more.
This study completely investigates the damage detection problem based on strain modal characteristics using simply supported wooden beams as the research object. First, modal analysis was performed, and finite element models of both damaged and undamaged timber beams were created using ABAQUS. Second, a number of strain modal characteristics (strain modal, strain modal difference, and strain modal curvature difference) were used to identify the damage to the wooden beam construction. Lastly, the modal parameters of the wooden beam under various damage scenarios were ascertained using damage identification experiments, and the test results were contrasted with those obtained from a numerical simulation. The findings showed that, while each of the three damage identification indices has a distinct identification effect, they can all locate the damage to wooden beams. Strain mode curvature difference > strain mode difference > strain mode is the order of them. The results of this study can be used as a reference to identify damage to timber beams in the future. Full article
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Mechanical Properties of Dahurian Larch Wood under Cyclic Loading: Experiments and Constitutive Model
by Lipeng Zhang, Qifang Xie, Yonggang Han, Yingjin Wang and Yajie Wu
Buildings 2023, 13(9), 2256; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13092256 - 05 Sep 2023
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This article presents a study on the mechanical properties and constitutive model of Dahurian larch wood under parallel-to-grain (ParG) and perpendicular-to-grain (PerG) cyclic loading. A total of twenty-four dog-bone specimens were designed and prepared. Failure modes, stress–strain curves, elastic moduli under monotonic loading, [...] Read more.
This article presents a study on the mechanical properties and constitutive model of Dahurian larch wood under parallel-to-grain (ParG) and perpendicular-to-grain (PerG) cyclic loading. A total of twenty-four dog-bone specimens were designed and prepared. Failure modes, stress–strain curves, elastic moduli under monotonic loading, and unloading/reloading moduli under cyclic loading were analyzed. Results indicated that the tensile and compressive envelope curves of wood under cyclic loading are similar to the monotonic stress–strain curves. The unloading and reverse reloading stiffness of wood are significantly degraded in both material directions. Furthermore, a constitutive model that is capable of considering the degradation of cyclic compression unloading stiffness and the change in reverse compression (tension) stiffness after tension (compression) unloading was proposed. A comprehensive comparison with test results was conducted, and they are in good agreement. Thus, the correctness of the proposed constitutive model is verified. Full article
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