Abstract

Turkey is in seismically active region, so many earthquakes occur in this country in the last decades. Ancient worship buildings are vulnerable to seismic activity, as many historical buildings. So, it is important to understand that building’s behavior under seismic actions. In this paper, fifteen masonry worship building has been selected which are located and built-in different region in Antalya. The main reason for the paper is to assess the seismic vulnerability of worship building by using a new approximate method. The method which is proposed in this paper aims at a simple and fast procedure based on a simplified geometric approach for immediate screening of masonry buildings at risk.

Highlights

  • Historical structures have a very important role to carry cultural inherit of the country and they are one of the most valuable pieces of cultural accumulation [1]

  • The usage of the approximate method usually requires that the worship building is regular and symmetric, that the floors act as rigid diaphragms, and that the dominant collapse mode is an in-plane shear failure of the walls

  • It was assumed that the materials were similar of all worship buildings, the volumetric weight of masonry was 20 kN/m3 and β coefficient was equal to 0.037

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Introduction

Historical structures have a very important role to carry cultural inherit of the country and they are one of the most valuable pieces of cultural accumulation [1]. Many historical buildings are quite vulnerable because they were built with low resistance materials. These buildings have insufficient connections between the various construction parts; masonry walls, floors, etc. These problems of historical masonry buildings lead to an overturning collapse of the perimeter walls under seismic horizontal acceleration. For this reason, seismic vulnerability assessments are very important and essential to care for historic masonry structures [4]

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