Cracking the Case: An Integrative Multi-Method Approach to Damage Investigation in the Morris Island Lighthouse
Heritage structures contribute significant historical and cultural value to their communities and the broader world but are often difficult to assess and preserve due to constraints on access and resources. The Morris Island Lighthouse is a masonry tower and cultural heritage structure (CHS) in Char...
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ftprincetonuniv:oai:dataspace.princeton.edu:88435/dsp01cn69m7503 2024-09-15T18:18:54+00:00 Cracking the Case: An Integrative Multi-Method Approach to Damage Investigation in the Morris Island Lighthouse Grinder, Anne Glisic, Branko 2024-07-29 application/pdf http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cn69m7503 en eng http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cn69m7503 Princeton University Senior Theses 2024 ftprincetonuniv 2024-08-05T23:36:26Z Heritage structures contribute significant historical and cultural value to their communities and the broader world but are often difficult to assess and preserve due to constraints on access and resources. The Morris Island Lighthouse is a masonry tower and cultural heritage structure (CHS) in Charleston, SC, that has sustained unrepaired damage from myriad sources that are challenging to tease apart. Because of the lighthouse's existing yet understudied structural health monitoring (SHM) system and archival record, the structure lends itself to a multi-faceted approach to CHS study. Using the Morris Island Lighthouse, a methodology was created that integrates long-term SHM data, numerical modeling, archival research, and site observation for tracing damage in support of preservation. Synthesizing these approaches resulted in substantiating the claim that corrosion has driven the formation and widening of cracks in the lighthouse, which is novel in the literature. By the same practice, corrosion was not found to be responsible for recent changes in tower inclination. Bachelor Thesis Morris Island DataSpace at Princeton University |
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Heritage structures contribute significant historical and cultural value to their communities and the broader world but are often difficult to assess and preserve due to constraints on access and resources. The Morris Island Lighthouse is a masonry tower and cultural heritage structure (CHS) in Charleston, SC, that has sustained unrepaired damage from myriad sources that are challenging to tease apart. Because of the lighthouse's existing yet understudied structural health monitoring (SHM) system and archival record, the structure lends itself to a multi-faceted approach to CHS study. Using the Morris Island Lighthouse, a methodology was created that integrates long-term SHM data, numerical modeling, archival research, and site observation for tracing damage in support of preservation. Synthesizing these approaches resulted in substantiating the claim that corrosion has driven the formation and widening of cracks in the lighthouse, which is novel in the literature. By the same practice, corrosion was not found to be responsible for recent changes in tower inclination. |
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