ASSESSMENT OF A HISTORICAL STONE MASONARY STUCTURE USING ANALYSIS TOOL ETABS

Masonry is the oldest building material that still finds wide use in today’s building industries. The most important characteristic of masonry construction is its simplicity. Laying pieces of stone, bricks, or blocks on top of each other, either with or without cohesion via mortar, is a simple, though adequate, technique that has been successfully used ever since remote ages. In this paper we are presenting a case study of an historical structure (bhojpur temple) made up of stone masonry, where we are modelling the same structure in etabs and assigning seismic case as per I.S. 1893-I. In this paper we concluded that assessment of historical structures are important to justify their present conditions and requirement of repairing type. In this structure we observed that some parts are at the verge of failure and need retrofitting.