Earth Sciences

Special Issue

Studying the Cultural Heritage Buildings

  • Submission Deadline: 30 September 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Asaad Al-Omari
About This Special Issue
The main construction units for cultural-historic buildings, temples and monuments are stones. Moreover, stones have been used as an architectural feature, trim, ornament or facing for buildings or other structures. The preservation of historical monuments is not only considered as a cultural requirement, but also a scientific challenge; that is why, in the last few decades, considerable attention has been paid to studying the mechanisms that lead to the decay of built heritage and, therefore, to the stones used for construction. This special issue is to improve dissemination of advanced research in the field of estimation the damage risk related to the degradation of stones in the historic and cultural buildings, due to the variation in climatic conditions through different weathering processes such as thermal stress, wetting-drying, freezing–thawing, ….etc.

Aims and Scope:

1. Characterization the historic stones in an attempt to identify the decay patterns.
2. Simulation of outdoor conditions in stone buildings
3. Analyzing both the meteorological data and stone data (temperature and humidity) to assess stone decay
4. Calculation the hydrothermal stresses due to stone temperature-humidity variations
5. Identifying the mechanisms lead to the degradation of buildings stone
6. Selecting the compatible and appropriate stones for restoration works.
7. Organizing the health record of historic buildings
Lead Guest Editor
  • Asaad Al-Omari

    Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq