REVERSE-ENGINEERING EVALUATION AND MONITORING OF NEMRUT MONUMENTS

Date

2012-01-01

Author

Türer, Ahmet
Şahin Güçhan, Neriman

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

273
views

0
downloads

The focus of this study is on the Nemrut Dag monuments, which were constructed approximately 2000 years ago at the peak of Mount Nemrut, 2206 meters elevation, are among the most valuable historical heritage sites in Turkey. Since the discovery of Nemrut monuments in 1881, many questions are unresolved, such as how the monuments were destroyed and why the damage level is very different between the symmetric east and west terraces. Natural causes, such as earthquakes, snow, or wind or manmade damages in the case of grave theft attempts with explosives or digging might have caused the damage. This study presents reversed engineering (forensic) approaches for the evaluation of different damage scenarios. The region being approximately 5 km away from East Anatolian Fault zone, the possibility of damaging earthquake occurrence in the past two millennia is quite high. Snow-load evaluations were carried out using the Swiss Guidelines for the Design of Snow Supporting Structures. The nonlinear blast-loading calculations were carried out using LS-DYNA software for the documented crater sizes located on the tumulus. Wind loading was investigated using on-site 4-year monitoring and statistical analysis. Conclusions include the results regarding the failure modes of the monuments and anastylosis/strengthening methods were discussed.

Subject Keywords

Nemrud, Nemrut, Monument, Evaluation, Monitoring, Modeling, Nonlinear, Seismic, Snow, Earthquake

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41120

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/15583058.2011.561906

Collections

Department of Civil Engineering, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Seismic evaluation and strengthening of nemrut monuments Aktas, Yasemin Didem; Türer, Ahmet (2015-05-01) Nemrut Dag Tumulus and Monuments, constructed during the Commagenian Kingdom approximately 2000 years ago on the peak of Mount Nemrut, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey. The region is about 5 km away from the East Anatolian Fault, therefore, this paper focuses on dynamic testing and earthquake simulations carried out within the framework of the Commagene Nemrut Conservation Development Program in order to explain monuments' current condition. The simulations showed vulnerability of cut-stone blocks ...
Durability assessment of the basalts used in the Diyarbakr City Walls, Turkey Dursun, Felat; Topal, Tamer (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-08-01) The Diyarbakr City Walls (DCW), which were recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, are among the largest and one of the most impressive monuments from ancient times. The history of the DCW stretches back more than 4000 years, therefore making the extant City Walls a combination and reflection of influences of the various civilizations that settled in the region. Basalts having such different textural properties as massive and vesicular were employed as the principal material in the construction of t...
Contrast Behavior of Sandstone from Mount Nemrut (Adiyaman-Turkey) After the Accelerated Weathering Tests Topal, Tamer (2014-09-19) Mount Nemrut Tumulus is one of nine sites in Turkey inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List. Geological investigation was carried out in the field between 2006 and 2009 around Mount Nemrut and its close vicinity. There are statues and horoscopes made of sandstone. The Lower Miocene sandstone covers an area of approximately 0.46 km2. The sandstone seen at Mount Nemrut is gray, thin-to medium bedded, moderately weathered, weak to moderately strong. Bedding planes are detached both in the field and on th...
Conservation of Urban Space as an Ontological Problem Günay, Baykan (Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 2009) The objects of conservation are known in the western languages by such epistemologies as heritage, historical building, monument, site, or beauty. Such a terminology exists in Turkish too, however, either consciously or unconsciously, legislation in Turkey rests on the notion of natural and cultural beings (tabiat ve kültür varlıkları). In spite of such a sophisticated definition, and that Turkey has a well developed legislation concerning conservation; it is hard to say that the society as a whole finds th...
Assesing the Usage of Calcium and Magnesium Hydroxide Nanoparticles as Consolidant for Dolostones. Karahan Dağ, Fulya; Tavukçuoğlu, Ayşe (2018-12-01) Dolostone has been abundantly used in the construction of monuments during archaeological periods in Anatolia. Several of those monuments have some decay problems to be assessed and need conservation treatments to be developed. In the study, it was aimed to prepare a nanodispersive solution from the dolostone itself and follow its carbonation mineral phases in order to obtain a compatible consolidation treatment for dolostone. A mixture of calcium and magnesium hydroxide nanodispersive solution in ethyl alc...

Citation Formats

A. Türer and N. Şahin Güçhan, “REVERSE-ENGINEERING EVALUATION AND MONITORING OF NEMRUT MONUMENTS,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE, pp. 373–395, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41120.