Protecting the National Gallery’s Paintings Collection From the Impact of Vibration During Building Work

Higgitt, Catherine; Harrison, Lynne; Galikowski, Tomasz; Pau, Mike; Henson, Peter M.

doi:10.1080/00393630.2020.1754058

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“…For example, this is what happened at the Viking Age Museum in Oslo [33] and at the National Gallery's paintings collection in London [34] during the respective expansion projects. To address the vibration issue at the Viking Age Museum, floor vibrations near the objects were monitored for 20 months and the limits for groundwork were set to 3-5 mm/s.…”

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Human-Induced Vibrations on Museum Artefacts: Literature Review and Calculation Example

Saeed,

Giresini,

Niglio

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COM

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Museums and artworks are visited by thousands of people every day and they are usually located in the city centers, often near train and subway stations. Moreover, renovations of art galleries are sometimes necessary in order to improve their usability. For these reasons, visitors, construction work and rail and road traffic constitute the most common sources of vibration in art galleries. Vibrations may potentially interfere with the usability of art objects and may be potentially dangerous for their preservation. Despite these issues, the researchers are mainly focused on mitigating the risk related to earthquake-induced vibrations, while the studies on the vulnerability of artistic heritage exposed to human-induced vibrations are still few and fragmented. Reference guidelines or codes to address this problem are not available at the moment. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to propose a literature review on that topic and to provide an example of calculation for a selected case study. This work is conducted in the framework of a larger study with the goal of understanding these phenomena and filling the lack of proper guidelines, for example, setting values of acceptable human-induced vibration levels.

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Human-Induced Vibrations on Museum Artefacts: Literature Review and Calculation Example

Saeed,

Giresini,

Niglio

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COM

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“…An overview about the research until 2017 is given in the study of Kracht and Kletschkowski [15]. Vibration measurements and reduction measures during construction work are documented in the study by Higgit et al [16]. In Baseline limits for allowable vibrations for objects [17], limits for allowable vibrations to objects are discussed on base spot tests.…”

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From “How to Model a Painting” to the Digital Twin Design of Canvas Paintings

Kracht¹,

Meyer-Coors²,

Schröder³

2023

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Preventive conservation is conductive to the long-term preservation of works of art. In order to realize the avoidance of damages in advance, risk management as well as foresighted thinking is required. The application of the method of engineering mechanics for preventive conservation is at the very beginning of its development. This article is a contribution to this still very young field. Generally, sensitive artworks combine all properties of complex mechanical structures. Oil paintings on canvas, for instance, are asymmetric, multiple curvilinear structures made of aged anisotropic compound materials with cracks and other damages. Due to their popularity, some artworks travel a lot, and during the exhibition and storage, they are always exposed to shocks and vibrations, therefore the protection of sensitive paintings is a demanding task, the solution of which requires the multidisciplinary cooperation especially in the context of engineering mechanics with its many specializations. The subject of the presented research is an artificial aged painting dummy in the simplest conceivable composition. This paper aims to describe the mechanical behavior of this test object, which is the basic requirement for the development of technological protective measures. The concept of the digital twin, known from Industry 4.0, is used to solve this task. This article focuses on the design of a virtual painting dummy that has the same static and dynamic behavior as the investigated real test object. Therefore, the deflection of the real dummy in lying position as well as the curvature of its standing position without and with dynamic excitations have been measured. The advantage of the analytical and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) models presented are their practicability and quick realizability at fair correlation. The concept presented offers a potential way to assess and finally reduce the risk for original paintings during various transport, exhibition, and storage situations with the help of virtual objects.

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Vibrations and cultural heritage preservation: a new approach to protect objects

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Protecting the National Gallery’s Paintings Collection From the Impact of Vibration During Building Work

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Human-Induced Vibrations on Museum Artefacts: Literature Review and Calculation Example

Human-Induced Vibrations on Museum Artefacts: Literature Review and Calculation Example

From “How to Model a Painting” to the Digital Twin Design of Canvas Paintings

Vibrations and cultural heritage preservation: a new approach to protect objects

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