İsmail Hakkı Tarhan
Habib Uysal
Abstract
Vaults are the most important structural elements in historical masonry structures. The issue of strengthening these structural elements continues to be popular and important in order to best fulfil the task of transferring historical structures to future generations. The use of fibre-reinforced polymer materials, which emerged in parallel with the developing technology, in reinforcement applications is a common practice. In addition to the many advantages these materials provide, their high cost has led many researchers to determine the most appropriate reinforcement arrangement. Therefore, many studies in the relevant literature are devoted to experimentally and numerically determine the most appropriate reinforcement arrangements of masonry structural members. Within the scope of this study, a vault in the historical Aziziye redoubt was modelled numerically and the effectiveness of two different reinforcement arrangements with CFRP fabric materials as longitudinal and curvilinear was investigated. According to the results obtained, it has been revealed in which situations these regulations are superior to each other.
Keywords
Masonry vault; CFRP Fabric; Strengthening; Ansys; Numerical Analysis
