Abstract
In the present study, the finite element analysis has been carried out on masonry building subjected to earthquake loading. For this purpose, an existing masonry heritage building situated in Aligarh city has been chosen. The time history method using El-Centro earthquake data has been employed for seismic performance of the chosen building. The maximum principal tensile stress and maximum shear stress has been observed and compared with permissible stresses. It has been found that these stresses exceed the permissible limit at few locations such as dome-wall junction, wall-roof junctions and the minarets. It has also been found that these locations are the most critical portion of the building under earthquake forces. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).