Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

   PDF

2. Engineering Geology in Shaping and Preserving the Historic Urban Landscapes and Cultural Heritage: Achievements in UNESCO World Heritage Sites

   • Claudio Margottini

   Pages 1-28

3. Conservation of Heritage of Earthen Structure, Earth Mound, Dam, Rock Monument, and Rock Cavern

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

      PDF

   2. Microtremor Measurements at Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China for Preliminary Dynamic Characterization for Performance During Earthquake

      • Yoshinori Iwasaki, Koichi Nakagawa, Yuzo Ishikawa, Chikaosa Tanimoto, Keigo Koizumi, Kazuo Oike et al.

      Pages 31-35

   3. CEN TC 346 Conservation of Cultural Heritage-Update of the Activity After a Height Year Period

      • Vasco Fassina

      Pages 37-41

   4. A Study on the Present States of Different Rocks of Ancient Monuments in Sri Lanka

      • Upali Silva de. Jayawardena

      Pages 43-46

   5. Analysis of the Stability of a Rock Cavern: The Fontanelle Cemetery

      • Anna Scotto di Santolo, Lorenza Evangelista, Aldo Evangelista

      Pages 47-51

   6. Measurement of the Joint Displacement Along Masonry Wall Using Digital Photogrammetry for the Structural Stability of the Borobudur Temple, Indonesia

      • Tomofumi Koyama, Ichita Shimoda, Yoshinori Iwasaki

      Pages 53-57

   7. Earth Pyramids: Precarious Structures Surviving Recurrent Perturbations

      • Giovanni B. Crosta, Riccardo Castellanza, Roberto de Franco, Alberto Villa, Gabriele Frigerio, Grazia Caielli

      Pages 59-63

   8. Evaluation of the Stability of Underground Cavities in Calcarenite Interacting with Buildings Using Numerical Analysis

      • Matteo Oryem Ciantia, Riccardo Castellanza, Claudio di Prisco, Piernicola Lollino, Jose Antonio Fernandez Merodo, Gabriele Frigerio

      Pages 65-69

   9. Estimation of Hydraulic Environment Behind the Mogao Grottoes Based on Geophysical Explorations and Laboratory Experiment

      • Koizumi Keigo, Oda Kazuhiro, Ito Misae, Piao Chunze, Tanimoto Chikaosa, Iwasaki Yoshinori et al.

      Pages 71-74

   10. Application of Photogrammetry to the Survey of the Yokosuka Arsenal Dry Dock No. 1, Japan

       • Yukiyasu Fujii, Kunio Watanabe, Takaharu Shogaki, Katsuhiro Kikuchi

       Pages 75-79

4. Engineering Geology and Preservation of Cultural Heritage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

      PDF

   2. Engineering Protection of the Territory, Monitoring and Safeguarding of the Immovable Cultural Heritage of the Historical Centre of Kiev

      • Yuriy Maslov

      Pages 83-87

   3. The Acropolis Hill of Athens: Engineering Geological Investigations and Protective Measures for the Preservation of the Site and the Monuments

      • George Koukis, Lambros Pyrgiotis, Athanasia Kouki

      Pages 89-93

   4. Preservation of Saint George’s Church at Cairo, Egypt

      • Andreas Antoniou, Efthymis Lekkas, Nikitas Chiotinis

      Pages 95-98

   5. Preservation of Sanukite, the Highly Sophisticated Music Instrument Made of Andesite

      • Shuichi Hasegawa, Seiko Tsuruta, Munekazu Maeda

      Pages 99-102

   6. Resistance of Buried Archeological Site to One-dimensional Mechanical Loading

      • Dominique Ngan-Tillard, Wim Verwaal, Arno Mulder, Hans Huisman, Axel Muller

      Pages 103-106

   7. Trostburg Castle in South Tyrol: Engineering Geological Investigations on the Castle Hill

      • Lempe Bernhard, Mehnert Lucia, Scherzer Kathrin, Festl Judith, Thuro Kurosch

      Pages 107-111

   8. The Geology of the Hill of Summersberg Castle in Gufidaun (South Tyrol, Italy) and Its Geotechnical Challenges in Mitigation Works

      • Ellecosta Peter, Lempe Bernhard, Thuro Kurosch

      Pages 113-116

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its contributions to national and international projects on this topic and is extending its interests to key issues like: safeguarding of monuments and sites from geotechnical perspectives; advanced monitoring; investigations on cultural landscapes; development of geo-databases for cultural heritage classification; studies on the interactions between humankind, natural landscape evolution and cultural heritage; analysis of weathering and deterioration of rock properties of monuments; risk analysis of sites affected by natural hazards and many others. With the contributions in this book, engineering geologists, conservation scientists and further experts from other natural, social and economic sciences, as well as representatives of international organizations and national and local administrative authorities exchange their ideas and practices on culture heritage preservation by presenting both local case studies and multidisciplinary international projects. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: Environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: Climate Change and Engineering Geology. Landslide Processes. River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources. Marine and Coastal Processes. Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology. Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

• Cultural Heritage Classification
• Engineering Geology
• IAEG XII Congress
• Natural Landscape Evolution
• Preservation of Cultural Heritage
• Safeguarding of Monuments
• Weathering of Monuments
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

  Giorgio Lollino, Daniele Giordan

• Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  Cristian Marunteanu

• Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Basiles Christaras

• Geo Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

  Iwasaki Yoshinori

• ISPRA-Inst. f. Env. Protection&Research, Geological Survey of Italy, Rome, Italy

  Claudio Margottini

Policies and ethics