Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 18 (2012)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2012

Copyright © 2012 Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague

 

J. Valach, R. Cacciotti, M. Čerňanský, P. Kuneš
pages 1473 - 1474, full text

Preservation of built cultural heritage, although constituting a well-documented branch in the field of conservation, presents a considerable knowledge gap in the systematic understanding of its common failures, physical, chemical or other mechanism of their occurrence and corresponding mitigation measures. The lack of available data coupled with the complex heterogeneity of their sources raises issues concerning the establishment of a framework able to process the information sensibly. The main aim of introducing and developing a knowledge-based system of failure of historical constructions called MONDIS is to address this demand. MONDIS proposes a methodology capable of reproducing the logical relationship between the manifestation of damage, its diagnosis and the possible interventions. Based on novel information sciences tools, like semantic technologies, the system will be able to assist users in finding similar failures cases, in analyzing the causes of damage and also suggesting suitable restoration techniques accordingly to conservation principles of intervention.

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