Performance of a Retrofitted Medieval Stone Bridge under a Severe Flood
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 24, Issue 5
Abstract
The very long absence of floods with a return period of more than about 100 years in the Vltava river basin dulled the vigilance of the state administration and self-government bodies. Flood safety measures were mostly related to once-in-a-hundred-years floods. When planning the engineering works before major repairs to the medieval Stone Bridge in Písek in the 1990s, an unpleasant but justified question was raised—what would happen to the Stone Bridge if an extremely powerful 500-year return period flood were to occur? The following case study deals with this question and provides a definitive answer to it. Works were carried out on the Stone Bridge, which was just a few years later exposed to the catastrophic flood that occurred in Bohemia in 2002.
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Acknowledgments
The writers gratefully acknowledge support from Institutional Research Plan grants UNSPECIFIEDAV0Z 20710524 and UNSPECIFIEDMSM 210000001, and from the Cultural Heritage Protection against Flood (CHEF) project of the Sixth Framework Program on Research and Technology Development of the European Commission (Contract No. UNSPECIFIED044251).
References
Hladký, J. (2005). The stone bridge in Písek, Publishing House of the Town of Písek, Czech.
ICOMOS. (2003). Recommendations for the analysis, conservation and structural restoration of architectural heritage, International Council on Monuments and Sites, Paris.
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Received: Aug 19, 2009
Accepted: Feb 15, 2010
Published online: Feb 17, 2010
Published in print: Oct 2010
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