TY - JFULL AU - M. M. Sadeghi and S. Vahdani PY - 2015/11/ TI - Assessment of the Energy Balance Method in the Case of Masonry Domes T2 - International Journal of Geological and Environmental Engineering SP - 1257 EP - 1267 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007316 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 106, 2015 N2 - Masonry dome structures had been widely used for covering large spans in the past. The seismic assessment of these historical structures is very complicated due to the nonlinear behavior of the material, their rigidness, and special stability configuration. The assessment method based on energy balance concept, as well as the standard pushover analysis, is used to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods in the case of masonry dome structures. The Soltanieh dome building is used as an example to which two methods are applied. The performance points are given from superimposing the capacity, and demand curves in Acceleration Displacement Response Spectra (ADRS) and energy coordination are compared with the nonlinear time history analysis as the exact result. The results show a good agreement between the dynamic analysis and the energy balance method, but standard pushover method does not provide an acceptable estimation. ER -