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Church buildings

John Francis Bentley, 2020

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Church Building and Church Buildings

, 2019
A. R. Sweeten
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Visit Motivation of Tourists in Church Buildings: Amending the Phelan-Bauer-Lewalter Scale for Visit Motivation by a Religious Dimension

, 2020
People often visit churches for touristic reasons. Studies indicate that these tourists share both secular motives and religious ones. An instrument to assess these motives, however, still is not available.
Ulrich Riegel, K. Lindner
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Model Updating of Cultural Heritage Buildings Through Swarm Intelligence Algorithms

International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2023
Masonry buildings constitute a great Italian historical and cultural heritage, but they were also severely damaged by earthquakes over the centuries.
F. Gara, V. Nicoletti, D. Arezzo, Leonardo Cipriani, G. Leoni   +4 more
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Fires and mutual insurance “against fire” of church buildings in the Totem Uyezd of the Vologda province in 1910-1917

Proceedings of the Komi Science Centre of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The paper, based on archival documents, analyzes the organization of fire insurance for church real estate in the Totem Uyezd of the Vologda province. The preparatory stage of insurance (assessment of buildings and assignment of insurance premiums) in ...
A. Rozhina
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Climate monitoring in World Heritage List buildings with low-cost data loggers: The case of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon (Portugal)

, 2020
The knowledge of the indoor climate in cultural heritage buildings plays a prominent role in their conservation and sustainability. Monitoring campaigns are becoming more frequent, however, the high cost associated with commercial data loggers along with
Hugo Entradas Silva, Guilherme B. A. Coelho, F. Henriques   +2 more
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A Multidisciplinary Study on the Seismic Vulnerability of St. Agostino Church in Amatrice following the 2016 Seismic Sequence

International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2020
The big earthquake of August 24, 2016 and subsequent major shocks severely damaged many historic villages in Central Italy and dramatically showed the intrinsic vulnerability of the diffused architectural heritage. The St.
A. Grazzini, F. Chiabrando, S. Foti, G. Sammartano, A. Spanò   +4 more
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Integration of reverse engineering and non-linear numerical analysis for the seismic assessment of historical adobe buildings

Automation in Construction, 2019
This paper aims at presenting a methodology that integrates reverse engineering tools with a combination of advanced and simplified analytical methods to perform predictive analysis of the structural behavior of historical adobe buildings under seismic ...
R. Aguilar, M. F. Noel, L. Ramos
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Analysis of the long and short-term effects of temperature and humidity on the structural properties of adobe buildings using continuous monitoring

Engineering structures, 2019
The analysis of the evolution of modal properties and its relationship with changes in environmental properties (i.e. ambient temperature and relative humidity) is of high importance since their effects along time can mask the influence of structural ...
G. Zonno, R. Aguilar, R. Boroschek, P. Lourenço   +3 more
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Calibrated hygrothermal simulation models for historical buildings

Building and Environment, 2018
Historic buildings are a living representation of our past and it is our duty to ensure that future generations have access to their heritage. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to determine the conditions that the buildings are in and, if ...
Guilherme B. A. Coelho, Hugo Entradas Silva, F. Henriques   +2 more
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