A Study on Timber Structural Elements of a Traditional Turkish House

Abstract:

Preservation of traditional settlements is an important issue of sustainable cultural heritage politics and this is an ongoing research to raise an argument on concept of restoration works going on in small scaled residential wooden structures in Turkey. Authors have had several analysis studies that identify the architectural and structural features as well as damage assessment of the house stock in Kula district. The main concept of the restoration work of selected cases is replacing the old timber structural elements with the new one, instead of treating them. In this study it is aimed to evaluate this renovation process by focusing the wooden elements. Destructive testing methods have been used on wooden elements that were obtained from Goldeliler House during the fieldwork to make a mutual evaluation for the quality of old and new samples.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 778)
• Pages: 42-49
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.778.42
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Ozgul Yilmaz Karaman, Mine Tanac Zeren
• Keywords: Conservation of Wooden Elements, Kula, Sustainability of Cultural Heritage, Traditional Turkish House, Traditional Wooden Structures

References

[1] EN 384: 2004 Structural timber-Determination of characteristic values of mechanical properties and density.

[2] EN 408: 2003 Timber structures - Structural timber and glued laminated timber - Determination of some physical and mechanical properties.

DOI: 10.3403/30159970

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-165-6