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Ancient Monuments Under Seismic Actions: Modeling and Analysis

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Classical monuments

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Classical monuments are made of structural elements (called drums in case of columns), which lie one on top of the other without mortar. Columns are connected to each other with architraves (epistyles) consisting of stone beams, usually made of marble. A characteristic example is shown in Fig. 1 from the Olympieion of Athens, Greece.

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SE corner of the Olympieion of Athens, Greece

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Department of Structural Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.), 9, Iroon Polytechniou, Zografou, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Ioannis N. Psycharis

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Psycharis, I.N. (2015). Ancient Monuments Under Seismic Actions: Modeling and Analysis. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_145

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