Numerical Simulation of Severe Damage to a Historical Masonry Building by Soil Settlement

Historical masonry structures, which constitute an important part of the historical heritage, exhibit brittle behavior under tensile stresses due to earthquakes or soil movements/settlements. Therefore, they are sensitive deformation. The soil–structure interaction problems play role in damage structures. Different settlements, slips, and deformations foundations causes to, and/or partial collapse load-bearing walls. This study provides a numerical simulation historic building on north coast Turkey, dating from 19th century, suffered severe settlement by excavation activity near building. FE models with without system were created identify following settlement. height domain (bounded as fixed boundary condition) was accepted range 1.5 m 15 m. propagation between numerically obtained existing detailed compared. In terms displacement, maximum vertical horizontal displacement values reflecting determined 22 mm 85 mm, respectively. depth 6 also considered acceptable for deciding interaction. For this, sum rigid basement can be selected equal total participating free vibration. It concluded that procedure employed provided effective representation Moreover, described adopted possible simulation.