In 1854, the federal government hired West Point engineering graduate (and Louisiana native) Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard to fireproof the building, rebuild the arches supporting the basement ceiling and install masonry flooring.
The non-linear elements of the models have been calibrated on experimental data available in literature to reproduce the actual hysteretic behaviour of both masonry and floors.
On the other hand, this kind of residences are generally degraded, and it is necessary to study adequate solutions to rehabilitate roofing (wood structures), walls (stone masonry) and floors (wood), particularly to improve house envelop resistance to water penetration and thermal comfort.
Layers of plaster, brick and masonry covered the floors, and broken joists rested haphazardly atop mounds of rubble.
Built to endure, with massive masonry walls and floors supported by terra cotta tile vaulting, as Loft 124, with the addition of 6 new levels, this structure has been thoughtfully adapted into Harlem's newest condominium development.
Trips Back in Time At La Sabranenque Restoration Projects, team members learn traditional techniques -- stone masonry, path paving, floor tiling -- as they help restore castles and other medieval buildings in Provence and, for one two-week period, in Italy.
The walls were load bearing masonry, but the floor system was framed with double back-to-back CFS lipped channels.
The engineering properties and techno-economics of materials like gypsum plasters, cementitious binders, boards/blocks, masonry cement and flooring tiles produced from phosphogypsum and lime have been detailed.
The walls of the conduit were constructed from dressed masonry and the floor from concrete.
There was also considerable use of heavy timber for the roofs and floors of masonry buildings, which was influenced by shipbuilding technology.
