A MODEL FOR THE STRUCTURAL AND SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF THE MOSQUE-CATHEDRAL OF CORDOBA

  1. Requena-Garcia-Cruz, Maria-Victoria 1
  2. Romero-Sánchez, Emilio 2
  3. Morales-Esteban, Antonio 13
  4. Fernández-Pérez, N. 2
  1. 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design. University of Cadiz. Spain
  2. 2 Department of Building Structures and Geotechnical Engineering. University of Seville. Spain
  3. 3 Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Construcción. University of Seville. Spain
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015)

ISSN: 2623-3347

Año de publicación: 2023

Tipo: Aportación congreso

DOI: 10.7712/120123.10792.20090 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Resumen

Monumental heritage buildings were typically built without considering the seismic action.Therefore, they are potentially susceptible to seismic damage. The structural assessment andthe vulnerability analysis of historical buildings is a complicated task. It requires a complexstudy and specialised technical skills. In order to gain some insight and to provide refinedresults, a model for the structural and the seismic performance of the Abd ´al-Rahman Isector of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba (Spain) has been presented. The MosqueCathedral of Cordoba, its monumental core and its surroundings were included in the WorldHeritage List in 1984. Its structural system is based on parallel arcades and naves. It wasstarted to be built in the 8th century and it has been enlarged several times. This monumentalbuilding is located in a seismic area of the southern Iberian Peninsula, characterised bylarge/very large earthquakes of long-return periods. In this work, a novel 3D model has beendeveloped based on the finite element (FE) method in the OpenSees framework. The modelhas been elaborated through the analysis of historical data and in situ verifications. Anexperimental campaign has been carried out to calibrate the numerical model. Gravitationaland horizontal nonlinear static analyses have been performed to determine the structural andthe seismic capacity of the structure. The results have shown that the building presents theworst seismic behaviour in the direction perpendicular to the arcades. This study represents apioneer experiment concerning the structural and seismic analysis of this building.