Seismic Assessment of the Historical Sütlü Minaret Mosque

Abstract

Historical masonry structures that connecting the past to the present have great importance because they represent the experiences and characteristics of various cultures. Therefore, the protection of historical structures is important. In this study, the structural response of the historical masonry Mosque was evaluated through dynamic analyses. For this purpose, the Sütlü Minaret Mosque which is located in Malatya, Turkey, was investigated. The three-dimensional model of the historical mosque was generated with ANSYS software. The material properties of the mosque were obtained with experimental tests. The time history analyses were used to obtain the seismic behavior of masonry mosque. In the time history analyses, six different strong ground motion records, including the 2020 Elazığ earthquake, were used. After the analysis, displacement and stress values in the mosque were given. The absolute peak displacement value among these earthquake records was obtained from the 1999 Düzce earthquake and the highest principal compressive and tensile stress values were determined for the 2010 Darfield earthquake. Also, the crack regions which occurred in the mosque after the 2020 Elazığ earthquake were compared with the dynamic analysis result of the 2020 Elazığ earthquake. The crack regions formed after the Elazığ earthquake are similar to the possible crack regions formed after the dynamic analysis.

Seismic performance of masonry buildings in Iraq

“…Considering the global seismic performance of the buildings in this study is in line with several previous published studies [10,16,20]. In contrast, investigations presented in Francisco Brandão et al [11], Hökelekli [18] and Maras et al [19] considered local damages in buildings using stress analysis by adopting linear or/and nonlinear time history analyses. On the other hand, several previous investigations considered both local and global performance of buildings [9,17].…”

“…Hökelekli [18] conducted linear and nonlinear time history dynamic analysis considering actual earthquake records in Turkey to investigate the seismic performance of historical minaret in Turkey. Maras et al [19] assessed the performance of historical Sütlü minaret mosque in Turkey using three dimensional finite element modeling and dynamic analysis. Six earthquake excitation records were applied to the model in which the performance was investigated.…”

“…almost all previous studies had focused on old and historical masonry buildings[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] located in different regions in the world.…”

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