The research carried out on the wall paintings of Hernán Pérez del Pulgar’s Palace chapel in Granada (Spain) was aimed at determining its historical–artistic, stylistic, technical, and compositional aspects. For this, a 16th century frieze an 18th pendentive were studied. mineralogical, chemical, textural characterization constituent materials study state conservation have helped to determine p...

An exo-templating synthesis process using polymeric fibers and inorganic sol particles deposited onto structured one-dimensional objects is presented. In particular, CeO2/ZrO2@SiO2 composite tubes were synthesized in a two-step procedure by using electrospun polystyrene fibers as fiber template. First, a sol-gel approach based on an exo-templating technique was employed to obtain polystyrene(PS...

It is necessary to recognize masonry domes’ behavior under gravity loads in order strengthen, restore, and conserve them. The neutral hoop plays a crucial role identifying the dome’s distinguish between its tensile compressive regions. When it comes determining position dome with same brick material, addition curve thickness, support condition located on boundary line significant parameter that...

iran central plateau is considered to be historically important due to the remained religious, historical, and cultural locations survived from ages ago. abarkuh, as one of the towns in yazd province, and the one which is 140 kilometers far from the center of the province, is considered to be historically important. moreover, this city is geographically related to esfahan and shiraz. since this...

the transition of a squared surface to a spherical one is one of the important issues of construction in the world architecture history. the combination can numerously be observed in the iran's architecture prior to the islamic period. for instance, the palace of shapur (a king) which was splendid and daring palace had a ceremonial court and featured a parabola dome. chahar taq (four arche...