Historical structure design method through data analysis and soft programming

Abstract

The present study is focused on the method of designing historical structures through data analysis and soft programming. The current research aimed to find the design method of the old columns of the structure and compare it with modern design methods. The case study was Goharshad Mosque (1400 AC) located in Iran, Mashhad. A correlation matrix was created to find the relationship between structure parameters by data mining in Python. The results indicate that the modern design method was more reliable than the old method due to the safety factor, but some parameters such as loading calculation in the historical method and the modern method were the same with more than 70% similarity. But the results of the coefficient of determination show that the loading of the R2 results was more than 0.44 and the area of the columns was more than −0.5. The modern and old design has a big engineering gap. Finally, the current study shows the old structure design method and compares it with the new design method.