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Title: | Mechanical and Typological Characterization of Traditional Stone Masonry Walls in Old Urban Centres: A Case Study in Viseu, Portugal | Authors: | Domingues, José Carlos Ferreira, Tiago Miguel Vicente, Romeu Negrão, João |
Keywords: | masonry characterization; mechanical properties; in situ test campaign; granite masonry; flat-jack testing; old urban center; regional constructive cultures | Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | MDPI | Serial title, monograph or event: | Buildings | Volume: | 9 | Issue: | 1 | Abstract: | Essential for any intervention in existing buildings, a thorough knowledge of both structural and material characteristics is even more important in the case of traditional stone masonry buildings, due both to the variability of this technology’s properties and the degradation buildings might have sustained. In Portugal, a number of in situ and laboratory experimental campaigns has allowed us in recent years to expand the knowledge on the mechanical properties of stone masonry walls. Nevertheless, the existence of different wall typologies built with the same material necessitates that this characterization takes into account the various regional constructive cultures. This paper presents the results obtained through an in-situ characterization campaign carried out in the old urban center of Viseu, for which there is no information available in the literature. Granite stone masonry walls of two different buildings were analyzed and characterized considering their geometrical and material features, contributing to the identification of stone masonry typologies present in the city’s old urban center. Flat-jack testing yielded resistance and deformability parameters to be used both in safety evaluation and intervention design. The properties obtained can be said to be consistent with those deriving from other experimental campaigns, conducted in granite walls of different typologies, throughout the country. Simultaneously, relevant conclusions about the use of flat-jacks to characterize this type of stone masonry were drawn. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106842 | ISSN: | 2075-5309 | DOI: | 10.3390/buildings9010018 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FCTUC Eng.Civil - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D ISISE - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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