Abstract
The high number of historical monuments in our country draws attention over the importance of rehabilitation and conservation works that need to be carried out in order to prevent their damage. The global concern regarding the conservation of world heritage is obvious if the ongoing projects would be considered. Integrated Rehabilitation and Research on Architectural and Archaeological Heritage (IRPP/SAAH) is one of the main projects in this field, in which a priority list was made containing 186 architectural monuments and archaeological sites from nine participating countries, which need to be rehabilitated. The main purpose of this paper is to realize an analysis of the seismic vulnerability of masonry orthodox churches located in Moldavia region. Old masonry structures were considered and a comparison between the three main types of churches was realized—churches with rectangular, trefoil or Greek cross plan configuration. Structural vulnerability for the considered typologies was assessed based on nonlinear static analysis (pushover). Vulnerability and fragility curves for the analyzed structures were plotted based on the results and on the well-known methodology. Due to their particularities, these churches may cause problems regarding human evacuation in case of earthquake, resulted or not in partial collapse of the structure. For this reason the paper discusses the possibility of reducing the risk of casualties caused by the vulnerability in case of a mass gathering of people. In this respect, numerical simulations were performed for the evacuation time required in relation to a certain level of structural response to a seismic action, for the three types of the considered structures.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Barbat AH, Carreño ML, Cardona OD, Marulanda MC (2011) Holistic evaluation of seismic risk in urban regions (in Catalan). Int Paper Numer Methods Comput Design Eng 27(1):3–27
Barbat AH, Vargas YF, Pujades LG, Hurtado JE (2012) Probabilistic assessment of the seismic damage in reinforced concrete buildings. Computational Civil Engineering—CCE2012. In: International symposium. Societatea Academica, Iasi, Romania, May 25, 2012, ISSN 2285–2735:43–61
Crişan M (2010) Structural rehabilitation of orthodox buildings from Wallachia and Moldavia (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Universitară “Ion Mincu”
Grigoraș ZC (2014) Analysing the human behaviour in a fire drill. Comparison between two evacuation software: FDS + EVAC and Pathfinder. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov, International Scientific Conference, “CIBv 2014”, 7–8 Nov 2014, vol 7, Series 1, Special issue no. 1:103–110
Guide User’s (2015) ETABS 2015. Integrated Building Design Software, USA
Hsieh YH, Ngai KM, Burkle FM Jr, Hsu EB (2009) Epidemiological characteristics of human stampedes. Disaster Med Publ Health Preparedness 3(4):217–223
Hsu EB (2011) Human stampede: an unexamined threat. Emer Phys Month. Available at: http://www.epmonthly.com/features/current-features/human-stampede-an-unexamined-threat/
Illiyas F, Mani SK, Pradeepkumar AP, Mohan K (2013) Human stampedes during religious festivals: a comparative review of mass gathering emergencies in India. Int J Disaster Risk Reduction 5:10–18. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420913000459
Lungu D, Arion C (2009) Seismic risk for monumental buildings in Transylvania (in Romanian). In: International conference rehabilitation of monument-buildings in Transylvania in terms of environmental and climatic influences, Mediaş
Mouzzoun M, Moustachi O, Taleb A, Jalal S (2013) Seismic performance assessment of reinforced concrete buildings using pushover analysis. IOSR J Mech Civil Eng (IOSR-JMCE) 5(1):44–49. ISSN:2278–1684
Olteanu I, Barbat AH, Budescu M (2015) Vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete framed structures considering the effect of structural characteristics. Open Civil Eng J 9. Available at: http://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOCIEJ/TOCIEJ-9-321.pdf
Prabhu A (2013) Seismic evaluation of 4-story reinforced concrete structure by non-linear static pushover analysis. Bachelor thesis. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
Pathfinder (2015a) Technical ref. Available at: http://www.thunderheadeng.com/downloads/pathfinder/tech_ref.pdf
Pathfinder (2015b) User manual. Available at: http://www.thunderheadeng.com/downloads/pathfinder/users_guide.pdf
Purcariu M, Ealangi I (2012) Seismic damage process of orthodox churches in Romania (in Romanian). Sci Bull U.T.C.B. no. 2/2012
Soveja L (2015) Evaluation and rehabilitation of historical masonry structures (in Romanian). PhD thesis. Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi, Iasi
Soomaroo L, Murray V (2012) Disasters at mass gatherings: lessons from history. PLOS Curr Disasters. 2012 Jan 31. Edition1. doi:10.1371/currents.RRN1301
Soveja L, Budescu M (2014) Failure mechanisms for orthodox churches in Romanian seismic areas. B.I.P. Iasi, Tomul LX (LXIV), Fasc. 4:173–183
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Thunderhead Engineering Consultants Inc. USA for providing Pathfinder.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Budescu, M., Soveja, L., Olteanu, I. (2016). Some Remarks Regarding Seismic Vulnerability for Orthodox Churches. In: Vacareanu, R., Ionescu, C. (eds) The 1940 Vrancea Earthquake. Issues, Insights and Lessons Learnt. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29844-3_29
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29844-3_29
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-29843-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-29844-3
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)