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<p>This paper studies the behaviour of historical cantilevered stone staircases. In Transylvania these types of stairs are found mainly in buildings classified as historical monuments built until the 1920s. Understanding the behaviour of historical staircases is essential when proposing consolidation or restoration interventions in buildings. In this work, structural analyses on simple models of staircases made of stone elements are proposed in order to investigate the stiffness of the assembly, the stresses that appear in the elements, deformations, the influence of the railings in the overall behaviour and the simulation of the breaking of a single individual step. The types of staircases investigated in this paper are existing historical structures that currently are no longer built from scratch, so the purpose of the calculation is not to dimension but to verify the existing structure.</p>
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This paper studies the behaviour of historical cantilevered stone staircases. In Transylvania these types of stairs are found mainly in buildings classified as historical monuments built until the 1920s. Understanding the behaviour of historical staircases is essential when proposing consolidation or restoration interventions in buildings. In this work, structural analyses on simple models of staircases made of stone elements are proposed in order to investigate the stiffness of the assembly, the stresses that appear in the elements, deformations, the influence of the railings in the overall behaviour and the simulation of the breaking of a single individual step. The types of staircases investigated in this paper are existing historical structures that currently are no longer built from scratch, so the purpose of the calculation is not to dimension but to verify the existing structure.

Structural Analysis of Historical Cantilevered Stone Staircases

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Journal of Applied Engineering Sciences

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This paper studies the behaviour of historical cantilevered stone staircases. In Transylvania these types of stairs are found mainly in buildings classified as...

Structural Analysis of Historical Cantilevered Stone Staircases

Published Online: Dec 06, 2023

Page range: 197 - 206

Received: Aug 01, 2023

Accepted: Sep 15, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaes-2023-0025

Keywords
Historical monument, Intervention, Individual stone step, Stability, Railings

© 2023 Sz. Hadi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Structural Analysis of Historical Cantilevered Stone Staircases

Published Online: Dec 06, 2023

Page range: 197 - 206

Received: Aug 01, 2023

Accepted: Sep 15, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaes-2023-0025

KeywordsHistorical monument, Intervention, Individual stone step, Stability, Railings

© 2023 Sz. Hadi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Historical monument, Intervention, Individual stone step, Stability, Railings