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CE 8060
LITERATURE REVIEW PROJECT
SUBMISSION#1
STRUCTURAL PROGNOSIS FOR THE EFFECTIVE
MANAGEMENT OF NATION’S CULTURAL HERITAGE
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Submitted to
Sez Atamturktur
Clemson University, Glenn Department of Civil Engineering
110 Lowry Hall, S Palmetto Blvd, Clemson, SC 29634
(864) 656-3003 sez@clemson.edu
Team Members
Civil Engineering
Saurabh Prabhu, Ph.D. Candidate
Greg Roche, Ph.D. Student
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6 September 2014
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INTRODUCTION
1. Motivation
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The National Register of Historic Places lists 3290 Gothic style buildings in the United States,
with 593 of those being houses of worship (National Park Service 2010). The need to maintain the
nation’s aging and deteriorating heritage structures with constrained budgets poses a great challenge to
infrastructure managers. Therefore, it is essential to equip infrastructure managers with science-based
techniques, rather than purely qualitative guidelines for prescribing maintenance and rehabilitation
schemes. It is envisioned that science-based monitoring and assessment techniques, such as Life-Cycle
Assessment charts for Preservation and Rehabilitation (LCA-PR) charts, described in this report, not only
provide quantitative, scientifically defendable and real time measures on the integrity of the structure, but
also evaluate the benefits of the preservation and rehabilitation campaigns. Quantitative information about
the structural degradation can aid in the development of the most cost-effective, long-term infrastructure
management plans that reduce both energy and material consumption, thusly yielding sustainable
maintenance schemes for the nation’s cultural heritage.
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STRUCTURAL
STRUCTURAL
FUNCTIONALITY
FUNCTIONALITY
100%
: due to
Degradation
: due to
Damage
DECISION NODE
DEMOLISH OR
RETROFIT
CONSTRUCTION
STRUCTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: 1/
STRUCTURAL RESILIENCY:
1/
DISASTROUS
EVENT
Satisfactory Recovery
Unsatisfactory Recovery
DECISION NODE
DEMOLISH OR
RETROFIT
Structural Functionality
Threshold
DEMOLITION
LIFESPAN (yrs)
 60 yrs *
Figure 1: SHM can enable us to construct Life-Cycle charts for Structural Sustainability and Resiliency of a
structural system.
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REFERENCES
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Anzani, A., Garavaglia, E., and Binda, L., “Long-term damage of historic masonry: a
probabilistic model.” Construction and Building Materials, 23(2), pp.713-724, 2009.
Armstrong DM, Sibbald A, Forde MC. Integrity assessment of masonry arch bridges using the
dynamic stiffness technique. NDT&E International. 1995;28(6):367-75.
Atamturktur, S., and Boothby, T., (2010), “Calibration of finite element models of masonry
vaults”, Journal of Masonry Society, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 77-93.
Atamturktur S., and Prabhu S., “Selection of optimal sensor locations based on modified
effective independence method: a case study on a gothic revival cathedral,” Journal of
Architectural Engineering, 19(4), pp.288-301, 2012.
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