Turkish historical arch bridges and their deteriorations and failures

Ural, Ali; Oruç, Şeref; Doğangün, Adem; Tuluk, Ömer

doi:10.1016/j.engfailanal.2007.01.006

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“…Regarding the evaluation of masonry structures, the GPR technology has demonstrated its potential to document and measure different inner structural characteristics, such as the dimensioning of wall thicknesses, the detection of internal faults like voids and cracks, as well as pathologies in construction, and also to locate hidden structures and former geometries [3,4,5,6] …”

Section: Terrestrial Photogrammetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Numerical Analysis of Masonry Structures, Taking Into Account Measured Geometric and Material Data

Drosopoulos¹,

Koutsianitis²,

Stavroulaki³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECO

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Section: Terrestrial Photogrammetrymentioning

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Numerical Analysis of Masonry Structures, Taking Into Account Measured Geometric and Material Data

Drosopoulos¹,

Koutsianitis²,

Stavroulaki³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECO

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“…The some of the bridges have still been served to public usage, the others are broken down due to the natural or human effects. The main reason of deterioration is natural disasters and overload transportation according to [1]. Konya region has also many stone arch bridges.…”

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Low-Cost 3D Imaging and Measurement Techniques for Documentation of Meram Masonry Arch Bridge in Turkey

Altuntas¹

2017

IJSSN

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A lot of historical masonry arch bridges that have different architect and ages had been built in Turkey. Some of them have still been used, the others have been broken down due to natural or human effects. These bridges have complex shapes and difficult conditions to measuring. The close-range photogrammetry and photogrammetric dense point cloud methods enable to creating 3D model of a great number of historical bridges with fast, low-cost and high accuracy. The Meram Bridge is inside the Konya Metropolitan Municipality. It has still serve to public usage, today. It's dimensions are 29.5m long and 4.5m width, and has five arches. It has been restored many times so far. Though it has not been known when it was built, but it is probably belong to period of Seljuk Empire and Karamannid state during 13-14 century (BC). In this study, historical Meram bridges have been measured and 3D model was created. After given some literature review about the masonry arch bridges in Turkey, the 3D model of Meram Bridge was created. Its dimensions were given on the orthophoto images.

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“…The primitive usage of the arches dates back to 3000 Before Common Era (BCE) in the underground tombs of Sumerians in Mesopotamia (Ural et al 2008). The use of stone arches in construction of bridges, aqueducts, and buildings continued and increased during the Roman Empire, Medieval period, and Renaissance, and until the second half of the twentieth century.…”

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Capacity Assessment of the Titus Tunnel Bridge Using Analytical and Numerical Techniques

Gencturk

Mullapudi²,

Kiliç

et al. 2014

J. Perform. Constr. Facil.

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A great number of masonry arch bridges are still in service in Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the world. Assessing the capacity of these historical structures is an important problem both for safety and preservation purposes. This paper addresses the assessment of the Titus Tunnel Bridge, a single-span, Roman stone arch pedestrian bridge (Common Era 70) located in Antakya, Turkey, using analytical and numerical techniques. The bridge is located in an active seismic zone and has survived several major earthquakes. Therefore, it is important to understand the Bridge's subtle features that have helped the structure survive for the last two millennia. Furthermore, being a single-span semicircular stone arch, the bridge exemplifies the main construction blocks of several masonry bridges around the world. First, the analytical techniques, i.e., Heyman's geometrical factor of safety and the mechanism method, are used to assess the capacity of the bridge under simple loading conditions and to validate the finite-element (FE) models. Then, discrete FE modeling with explicit time integration is used to investigate the arch behavior under both gravity and earthquake loading conditions. It is observed that the Titus Tunnel Bridge has a significant margin of safety against collapse, which also explains the approximately 2,000-year lifetime of the structure. The results are also used to provide estimates on the maximum expected ground motions in the region using a precarious rocks analogy.

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Turkish historical arch bridges and their deteriorations and failures

Cited by 42 publications

References 1 publication

Numerical Analysis of Masonry Structures, Taking Into Account Measured Geometric and Material Data

Numerical Analysis of Masonry Structures, Taking Into Account Measured Geometric and Material Data

Low-Cost 3D Imaging and Measurement Techniques for Documentation of Meram Masonry Arch Bridge in Turkey

Capacity Assessment of the Titus Tunnel Bridge Using Analytical and Numerical Techniques

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