PSI - Issue 79

Vrouva Antigone et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 79 (2026) 161–167

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the analysis of st case scenario time-histories estigated separa roof beams and ong the conclu quency content onsistency betw particular archit mple the tende aviour of the le cks level was ob for the displace ere the maximum displacements o

f the structure 9 o for a return pe records of criti ately. The inves d the roof coffer usions of the c of the ground ween maximum tectural blocks ency of the ou engthening of th bserved. ements, the mod m displacemen of the upper blo

appropriate ac eriod equal to m ical architectura stigation focuse rs. current study it d excitations us and permanent a systematic b uter peristasis c he façade demo dels confirm th nts appear towar ocks of the struc

tual accelerogra more than 2 thou al members’ di ed on crucial m t can be ascert sed, which is d t displacements behaviour seem capitals to lean onstrated by the hat the roof tend rds the centre o cture.

rams of strong g usand years- we splacements we members’ behav tained that ther depicted by the with the seism ms to remain co n outwards at e opening of th ds to restrain th of the façade, w

ground motions ere used. ere compared a iour such as ca re is an inherit e lack of syste mic excitation. onstant in all th the angle was he joints at the he overall displa whereas the grid

s -suitably ampl and evaluated fo apitals, architrav t sensitivity of matic members he investigated obvious. Furth architrave level acements of the d of beams scen

lified to design for each seismic ves, pediment b f such models s’ behaviour a ground motion hermore, the g el and at the ped e structure, esp nario tends to a

ate the c event blocks, on the nd the ns. For general diment ecially mplify

inve the r Amo freq inco In p exam beha bloc As f whe the d

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words: ancient mo onades’ interactio

onuments; Parthe on;

enon; coffered roo

of; DEM analysis

s; seismic respons

se; real accelerrog

grams; modeling

articulate monum

ments;

Keyw collo

1. I

T ntroduction The original d vered the spac g sides of the mple along the The current st st colonnades

design of the t e between the e temple was b short sides th tudy investiga (the west peri

temple of Part e colonnade o bridging the o he roof was bri ates the effect istasis colonna

thenon in the f the peristasi outer peristasi idging togethe of the coffer ade and the w

Athenian Acr is and the mai is colonnade er two colonn red marble roo west prostasis (

ropolis bore a in cella (see F with the mass ades (the peri of in the seism (Opisthonaos)

a lavish coffer Fig. 1). While sive structure stasis’ and the mic behaviour colonnade).

red marble roo e that roof alo of the walls e prostasis’). r of the Parthe

of that ng the of the enon’s

cov long tem T wes

Fi ig. 1. (a) plan and

d south view of th

he Parthenon ; (b)

) drawings of the

Parthenon’s grap

phical reconstruct

tion in Korres M.

., Bouras Ch., (19

983).

1.1.

Structure The Parthenon tury BC with mps and dowe

T cent clam

n is a periptera h accurately fi els for adjacen

al octastyle te itted marble b nt blocks of th

emple of the D blocks in total he walls, the e

Doric order wi l absence of m entablature and

ith Ionic archi mortars. Conn d the pedimen

itectural featu nections are p nts. Apart from

ures, build in t provided with m the inclined

the 5th metal d outer