Monumental buildings used as museums: Protection or danger for the artifacts?

MonArch - Digital Archives for Monumental Buildings

Monumental buildings such as cathedrals or castles together with their often very old and large archives form an important part of our cultural memory and heritage. Unique documents like medieval manuscripts, precious incunables, and church registers as well as original building plans, construction reports, old chemical recipies used for repairing and various others can be found in these archiv...

Inverse Modeling of Climate Responses of Monumental Buildings

The indoor climate conditions of monumental buildings are very important for the conservation of these objects. Simplified models with physical meaning are desired that are capable of simulating temperature and relative humidity. In this paper we research state-space models as methodology for the inverse modeling of climate responses of unheated monumental buildings. It is concluded that this a...

Parallel robots used in passive and active protection of the buildings

The paper presents some aspects related to the passive and active protection of the buildings. It is well know that Stewart platform is a mechanism with six degrees of freedom. This main property leads to the idea of its utilization in order to simulate fully the movements of earthquakes. On the other hand, from the same point of view this mechanism can be used into the passive and/or active pr...

Buildings and Infrastructure Protection Series

The relation between research and museums : utopia or reality when museums become participatory ?