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Key fragment of 4.3 m, stalagmite located in "Plavecka Priepast" (Slovakia). Maximum tensile stresses computed for Oroszlany, 2011 seismic excitations recorded at BUD station (60 m underground) with horizontal PGA=8.04mm/s/s, PGV=0.497mm/s (geometric means)
Fragment of the stalagmite MESH at the height of 161 cm

Supplementary material to paper "Seismic vulnerability of a slender stalagmite" by Zembaty Z., Bonkowski P.A, Jaworski M.A., Gribovszki K., published in Journal of Earthquake Engineering in 2022
link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2022.2033356

The geometry of the stalagmite has been obtained using laser scan by courtesy of A.Arpas, B. Balzan and M. Ruttkay, Archeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences