Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Ziwani Minaret in Mosul City Depending on Site Testing and Advanced Structural Analysis

Abstract

AbstractResearch on the maintenance, protection and restoration of monuments in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, a tedious, lengthy and complex due to the many milestones and development of methods and approaches on the subject if we take all the parameters with the lengthy statement problems needed a more specialized work team and needs a long time.Different work in maintenance and repair of buildings according to their financial ability, artistic, cultural and heritage in all its aspects, there is the need for maintenance of that heritage as an expression of respect for the past and care to continue the dialogue with him because that is linked to the past with the present and looking to the future prosperous, sophisticated, and there was seen a negative heritage and considers it a sign of backwardness of the past and the need to get rid of it, this has caused the destruction of many monuments, in many Muslim countries.Deep foundations were identified carrying the base of the minaret and determine the impact of the foundations in terms of physical, chemical and mechanical result of age and exposure to the boundary conditions. As well as conducting a general survey and measuring the deviation of the Minaret and determine the areas affected as a result and the structural analysis and identification of weaknesses that had caused the collapse of a minaret has also been conducting Necessary tests and study the nature of the materials used in creating the minaret and the vulnerability of these materials by external circumstances and study of mechanical properties. As is the work of steel supporters inside the minaret with a suitable metal sections depending "on structural analysis to be installed to the steel sections are embedded in the base of the Minaret using materials such as epoxy bond Linking to an external Datum being installed after a minaret by choosing a section of supporter.