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Fracture and Failure of Natural Building Stones

Applications in the Restoration of Ancient Monuments

Organized by

Stavros Kourkoulis

The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scientists from various disciplines working on the subject of the mechanical behaviour of natural building stones and their applications in the construction and conservation/ restoration of ancient monuments. The importance of the symposium emanates from the fact that the detailed knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of these stones is indispensable to the experts working for the conservation of the monuments in order to avoid the use of stones incompatible to the authentic ones which leads to unsuccessful attempts, dangerous for the structural integrity of the monument. Structural engineers, architects, archaeologists, chemical engineers, geologists and materials engineers will contribute in the symposium. The results of the symposium would be useful to all those working in the field of restoration of ancient monuments.

Organizer: Dr Stavros K. Kourkoulis

Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens,

Zografou Campus, Theocaris Building, 157 73 Zografou

Phone: 30-210-7721313, FAX: 210 7721302

E-mail: stakkour@central.ntua.gr

Scientific Committee:

1. Airres-Barros Luis Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

2. Binda Luigia Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

3. Chau Kam Tim The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

4. Ioannis Dafalias National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece & University of California at Davis, USA.

5. Tonia Moropoulou National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

6. Roberto Nova Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

7. Jean Sulem CERMES, Ecole Nation des Ponts et Chaussées, France

8. Ioannis Vardoulakis National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

9. Fulvio Zezza University IUAV of Venice, Venice, Italy

Papers

	Authors	Corresponding author	Title
1	Anna Lobovikov-Katz	Anna Lobovikov-Katz	Deterioration and conservation of stone and the deterioration of the architectural design in historic monuments: the evaluation criteria
2.	Lucia Toniolo, Tommaso Polι	Lucia Toniolo	The challenge of protecting outdoor exposed monuments from atmospheric attack: experience and strategy
3.	Luigia Binda	Maria Rosa Valluzzi	Compatibility of materials used for repair of masonry buildings: research and applications
4.	M.R. Valluzzi, C. Modena	Maria Rosa Valluzzi	Mechanical behavior of masonry structures strengthened with different improvement techniques
5	Roberto Nova	Roberto Nova	Modelling the mechanical behaviour of natural building stones subject to weathering
6	J. Sulem, M. Cerrolaza	J. Sulem	Numerical modelling of masonry structures under static and dynamic loading
7	L. Aires Barros, Carlos Figueiredo, Amélia Dionísio, Monika Hapjal Akos Torok.	L. Aires Barros	Τhermal behaviour of a lot of Portuguese and Hungarian monument stones submitted to thermal tests.
8	Raşit Αltindag, Nazmi Sengun, Mahmut Mutluturk, Avni Guney, Remzi Karaguzel, Göksel Turk	Raşit Αltindag,	The integrity loss of physico-mechanical properties of building stones when subjected to recurrent cycles of freezing–thawing process
9	Edwin Fuller Jr, Thomas Weiss, Thomas Wanner	Edwin Fuller Jr	Microstructural residual stress networks: Their origin and influence on microcracking"
10	Thomas Weiss, Fuller Edwin R. Jr..	Thomas Weiss	Fracture propagation and characterization in rocks: Implications for the preservation of cultural heritage
11	John M. Logan, M. Hastedt, D. Lehnert, M. Denton, M. Lewis	John M. Logan,	Integrated on-site and laboratory studies of factors influencing strength loss and failure in marble on building exteriors
12	Margherita Ferrero, Paola Marini.	Paola Marini	The effect of thermal stresses on the mechanical behaviour of natural building stones.
13	Richard Prikryl	Richard Prikryl	Mechanical properties of building stones: simple material testing or challenge for rock mechanics?
14	Kevin Hall	Kevin Hall	Monitoring of thermal conditions in building stone with particular reference to freeze-thaw events
15	Veerle Cnudde, P. Jacobs	Veerle Cnudde	Conservation and restoration of natural building stones
16	Adil Binal	Adil Binal	The surface weathering mechanism of Midas-monument in Eskisehir-NW Turkey
17	David Benavente	David Benavente	Influence of microstructure on durability of porous building stones
18	Yossef H. Hatzor	Yossef H. Hatzor	Structural stability of ancient monuments in rocks –Challenges and Possibilities
19	Mónica Alvarez de Buergo Ballester, Fort González, R; Gómez-Heras, M., Varas Muriel, M.J.	Mónica Alvarez de Buergo Ballester	Stones under stress
20a	L. Binda, G. Cardani, A. Meda	Giuliana Cardani	Fracture behaviour of Serena sandstone and Noto limestone under cyclic and monotonic loading
and 20b	L.Binda, G. Cardani, C. Tiraboschi	Luigia Binda	The difficult choice of materials for the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Noto
21	Jason Houck and George W. Scherer	George W. Scherer	Controlling stress from salt crystallization
22	P.A. Warke, B.J. Smith & J. McKinley,	Patricia A. Warke	Weathering of building stone: factors controlling the spatial and temporal variability of failure
23	Syrmakezis K.	Kostas Syrmakezis	Crack development - propagation in masonry structures under dynamic (earthquake) loads
24	Psycharis I.N.	Ioannis N. Psycharis	Seismic response of classical monuments with fractured structural elements
25	Papantonopoulos K.	Kostas Papantonopoulos	Spanning Intervals: Towards understanding the ancient Greek optimization procedure for the design of horizontal beams.
26	Exadaktylos G. Stavropoulou M. , Valentini E., Tiano Piero	Exadaktylos Georgios	Mechanical properties of natural building stones from indentation tests data.
27	Zambas Kostas	Zambas Kostas	The use of natural building stones in ancient monuments.
28	Agioutantis Z., Kontos G.	Agioutantis Zaharias	The influence of cracks on the mechanical behaviour of marble plates under tension.
29	Ninis N, Latsiou V.	Ninis Nikolaos	The mechanical behaviour of composite specimens made from the Epidauros monuments stone and substitute materials.
30	Kourkoulis S.K.and E. Papageorgiou	Kourkoulis Stavros	Statistical analysis of the size effect in case of NBS under compression.
31	E. Papamichos, S.-A. Papanicolopoulos, I. Larsen	E. Papamichos	Mechanical properties and damage diagnosis of natural building stones.
32	V. Perdikatsis, Th. Markopoulos	V. Perdikatsis,	Petrography and mineralogy of Greek building stones.
33	Giovanni Rizzo and L. Ercoli	Giovanni Rizzo	Comparison of durability of different carbonatic stones as evaluated by both natural and accelerated weathering.
34	C.Giavarini, Alessandro Samuelli Ferretti and M.L. Santarelli	C. Giavarini	Mechanical characteristics for Roman opus coementicium and masonries retae to natural stones
35	Claudio Della Volpe	Claudio Della Volpe	Pending
36	Silvia Vicini, Elisabetta Princi, Enrico Pedemonte	Silvia Vicini	In-situ polymerisation with acrylic monomers for stone consolidation and protection
37	K.T. Chau,  R.H.C. Wong, K.W. Kwok and T.F. Wong	K.T. Chau	Subcritical cracking: A cause of rock panel failure in buildings
38	K.W. Kwok, R.H.C. Wong and K.T. Chau and T.F. Wong	Robina H.C. Wong	Experimental studies on corrosion cracking in facade rock panels
39	Moropoulou Antonia	Moropoulou Antonia	Environmental aspects for natural building stones
40	Fulvio Zezza	Fulvio Zezza	Failure of ansotropic marble: The proconnesium marmor of roman columns in Brindisi
41	Korres Manolis	Korres Manolis	Thermal fracture of NBS
42	Roland Dreesen	Roland Dreesen	The use of petrographical techniques in the quality control of NBS or petrographical characterization and microscopical damage analysis of NBS

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