Research Article

Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church

Volume: 5 Number: 5 December 31, 2020
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Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church

Abstract

Wood is one of the oldest building materials used on earth. Wood as a building material; it has been evaluated in different ways according to the socio-economic, cultural and natural resource structures of the countries. In addition, wood is a building material used in the construction of places of worship such as mosques and churches according to the belief structures of the societies. Our country, which has a deep-rooted culture and history, is also rich with its places of worship, houses, architecture and use of houses. It is possible to come across some of these building examples in the black sea region. One of them is the Santa Maria church, which was built between 1869-1874 in the Merkez Kemerkaya district in Trabzon, and is a religious center where foreigners who visit the city still worship. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the wooden materials of the church of Santa Maria by testing them non-destructive test methods. In this way, it was aimed to determine the current bearing properties without damaging the structural materials in a wooden structure built in our country and surviving for many years. For this purpose, the damage, defects and resistance properties of the building's bearing elements were tried to be determined with non-destructive test devices. The results obtained were compared with the values specified in the EN 338 standard. It was determined that most of the wooden elements in the structure still maintained their load-bearing properties and provide the minimum mechanical resistance properties specified in the standards.

Keywords

Non-destructive Tests, Historical wooden structures, Santa Maria Church

Thanks

This paper was presented at the International Forest Products Congress [ORENKO 2020] held on 23-26 September 2020, Trabzon, Turkey, and selected for publication in the Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences.

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APA
Gezer, E. D., Demirkır, C., & Özdemir, T. (2020). Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences, 5(5), 863-866. https://doi.org/10.35229/jaes.836874
AMA
1.Gezer ED, Demirkır C, Özdemir T. Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church. JAES. 2020;5(5):863-866. doi:10.35229/jaes.836874
Chicago
Gezer, Engin Derya, Cenk Demirkır, and Turgay Özdemir. 2020. “Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church”. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences 5 (5): 863-66. https://doi.org/10.35229/jaes.836874.
EndNote
Gezer ED, Demirkır C, Özdemir T (December 1, 2020) Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences 5 5 863–866.
IEEE
[1]E. D. Gezer, C. Demirkır, and T. Özdemir, “Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church”, JAES, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 863–866, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.35229/jaes.836874.
ISNAD
Gezer, Engin Derya - Demirkır, Cenk - Özdemir, Turgay. “Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church”. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences 5/5 (December 1, 2020): 863-866. https://doi.org/10.35229/jaes.836874.
JAMA
1.Gezer ED, Demirkır C, Özdemir T. Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church. JAES. 2020;5:863–866.
MLA
Gezer, Engin Derya, et al. “Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church”. Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences, vol. 5, no. 5, Dec. 2020, pp. 863-6, doi:10.35229/jaes.836874.
Vancouver
1.Engin Derya Gezer, Cenk Demirkır, Turgay Özdemir. Mechanical Properties of Wood Members in Santa Maria Church. JAES. 2020 Dec. 1;5(5):863-6. doi:10.35229/jaes.836874