Determining frequency of buildings has a crucial impact on proper analysis and design of
structures. Conventional methods (ie, in situ and numerical analysis) are generally costly …

ABSTRACT The BAPS Hindu Mandir, recently constructed in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is a complex
unreinforced stone masonry structure built from thousands of sculpted sandstone and …

Historic masonry towers, with their brittle materials, slenderness, and distinctive shapes, are
highly susceptible to lateral excitations. The urgency of preserving surviving ones in …

Minarets are crucial as symbolic and indispensable elements in mosques across religious
communities worldwide. Beyond architectural culture, hazardous conditions have shaped …

Internal defects in the timber components of ancient architecture can reduce their effective
cross-sectional areas, deteriorate their mechanical performance, and increase the risk of …

Control charts have become a common method for damage detection within vibration-based
structural health monitoring. Successful applications have been implemented including for …