Abstract
The Western Eivan is a part of the World Heritage Site of Takht-e Soleyman in Iran. The ruins of the large hall show grave structural damages. The structure is built of brick work, natural stone masonry and gypsum based mortar. In the last two years several works were executed like archeological soundings, documentation of the existing historic building substance, performance of a 3 D laser scan, materials and damage mapping as well as taking of material samples and performance and supporting of a gypsum burning process. Beyond that it was developed a concept for the stabilization of the north wall of the Eivan. At the building site two test walls were designed and drilling and grouting technology as well as the developed grout was tested. In 2017 the buttress on the north side of the ruin was safeguarded and retrofitted with the selected techniques. The presented paper highlights the preliminary research and the safeguarding approach for the iconic ruin.
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The authors would like to thank the German Foreign Office and its Cultural Preservation Programme for the generous funding of the project. Needless to say, that the entire project fundamentally relies on this help. Also we would like to express our gratefulness to our Iranian project partners, among the many we would like to mention particularly Mr. Mohammad Fathi, Mr. Reza Taqavi and the deputy head of the Iranian cultural heritage organization ICHHTO, Dr. Mohammad Hassan Talebian. Our thanks also go to the many colleagues and specialists within the German team, in particular Dr. Anja Heidenreich for the archaeological evidence and Dr. Robert Sobott for the investigations on the gypsum production.
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Jaeger, W., Korn, L., Burkert, T., Fuchs, C. (2019). Safeguarding and Retrofitting of the Western Eivan of the Takht-e Soleyman, Iran. In: Aguilar, R., Torrealva, D., Moreira, S., Pando, M.A., Ramos, L.F. (eds) Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions. RILEM Bookseries, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99441-3_178
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