
Explore restoration of historic buildings through seven chapters on materials, masonry assemblages, historic stone masonry, load-bearing walls, repair, and computer analysis, with problem-solving examples and exam practice.
Delve into historic buildings restoration by solving masonry wall design problems in chapter one, focusing on plan interpretation, wall thickness, wind loads, and the complete design of wall sections.
Explore chapter one concepts in structural design for historic building walls, including maximum allowable design, wall thickness, reinforcement, slenderness, and determining the maximum number of floors.
Learn to calculate loads and wall capacity for historic buildings, compare unreinforced and reinforced masonry, and optimize wall thickness and reinforcement spacing.
Explore the absorption characteristics of masonry, mortar properties, and joint reinforcement in historic stone masonry restoration, focusing on water activity, walkability, and seismic considerations.
Explore structural design challenges in historic building restoration, solving moments, slenderness, and maximum allowable design for composite and simple spans with practical equations.
This lecture continues chapter two with solved examples and exam questions on masonry assembly, concrete functions, and material properties for historic walls.
Review exam questions on assembly shapes and cement estimation, including lime cement, while analyzing governance and security scenarios across policy implications.
Explore solving selected exam questions on historic masonry restoration, focusing on joint configurations, solid versus hollow masonry units, and strength calculations for earthquake-resistant and reinforced designs.
Solve chapter two exam questions by applying wall thickness design and UPC equations to determine maximum allowable design values for a half-brick wall, including compression checks and interaction considerations.
Historic buildings restoration, part II, chap 2 lec 5 guides through complex calculations and design analysis for restoration projects, including slenderness, area sizing, brick walls, and policy considerations.
Learn about mortar and cement composition, unit types, and joint reinforcement in historic restoration, and how water retention, strength, and reinforcement influence mortar performance.
This course is about Restoration of Historic Buildings.The full course is made up of two parts. Part I will cover the theory and some examples while part II will provide solved questions, sheet problems and some solved exam questions. The first part will cover topics such as: Masonry materials, Masonry Assemblages, Historic Masonry Assemblages, Load Bearing walls under axial loads and out of plane loading, repairing Historic Masonry Walls and more. There are lots of tests performed on the existing buildings which will be shown in the different chapters of the first part of the course. A nice and quick summary to Chapters 2 through 5 is shown in one PDF file within part I of the course. Examples of Historic Buildings for different parts of the world will be shown.
This course is typically taught at the second, third or fourth year for Civil Engineering students. It might also be needed for Architectural students. The course materials are in simple English. I am hoping that the participants of the 2 courses will enjoy the material and will have great understanding of the course. I am planning to attach any supporting documents in a PDF format that will summarize the lecture videos and notes.