Author(s)

J.L. Justo, A. Jaramillo & P. Gentil

Abstract

Seville has suffered, along its history, important earthquakes that have damaged its monuments. The working-out of models of these monuments by the finite element method, and the probabilistic estimate of the accelerogram, allow us to estimate the damage, and to compare it with the harm indicated in the chronicles. We can modify the design accelerogram so as to approach the estimated and reported damage, and, in this way, improve the estimate of this accelerogram. This will allow to foresee the harm produced by future earthquakes, and will permit the design of adequate strengthening. Three monuments from the XII till the XV Century have been discretized; each of them has suffered many well documented earthquakes. The finite element program SAP 90 has been used, and the contours of maxima tensile, compression and shear stresses have been studied. Also tests on the materia

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