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Retrofitting and Strengthening Masonries of Heritage Structures: Materials Used

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Compatibility issues; Earthquake; Fiber reinforced polymers; Grouts; Masonry of heritage structure; Mortars; Preservation; Protection; Retrofitting; Selection

Introduction

Masonry heritage structures (MHS) constitute a countless number of different types of constructions dated from prehistory to present in which many “value contexts” (Lipe 1984) such as historic archaeological, aesthetic, symbolic, social, cultural, scientific/technological, and economic are included making them a real treasury of human civilization. According to Burman (Burman 2001), their survival is essential to the spiritual, emotional, and economic well-being of humans.

The preservation of these structures concerns both life expectancy and protection from collapse occurred from earthquakes in seismic regions or from other natural or anthropogenic disasters. The former is closely related to the conservation/consolidation from decay phenomena due to the ageing effects of the environment impact on the...

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  1. Laboratory of Building Materials, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box:482, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioanna Papayianni

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  1. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Michael Beer

  2. Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Ivan Siu-Kui Au

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Papayianni, I. (2014). Retrofitting and Strengthening Masonries of Heritage Structures: Materials Used. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_203-1

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