Dionysos marble beams under bending: A contribution towards understanding the fracture of the Parthenon architraves

Engineering Geology

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 246-256

  Kourkoulis, S K ^a   Ganniari Papageorgiou, E ^a   Mentzini, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b the Temple of Apollo Epikourios   (Greece)

Author keywords

Architraves; Bending; Contact elements; Dionysos marble; Finite element method; Monuments; Natural building stones; Restoration; Titanium

Indexed keywords

ARCHITRAVES; BENDING; CONTACT ELEMENTS; DIONYSOS MARBLE; FINITE ELEMENT; MONUMENTS; NATURAL BUILDING STONES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARBLE; RESTORATION; TITANIUM;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BENDING; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; MARBLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REINFORCEMENT; STRAIN; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 77956435076     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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