An attempt to find out the most probable displacement demands of precast cantilever columns has been presented here. The purpose of the findings presented is to set up a [...]

The theoretical and experimental research performed recently in the Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory of Istanbul Technical University on prefabricated squ [...]

Past and recent earthquakes revealed the fact that existing buildings in many earthquake prone countries, like Turkey, have various deficiencies regarding their seismic p [...]

The recent drive for the use of a single-degree-of-freedom representation in displacement-based design and assessment of 3D reinforced concrete (RC) structures has signif [...]

Masonry structures constitute a high percentage of the European building stock. However, the inherent variability of the material properties and other epistemic uncertain [...]

A Displacement-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment (DBELA) methodology for urban areas, which compares the displacement capacity of the building stock with the displacement [...]

The need for vulnerability assessment of urban scale building populations is of increasing interest due to the high seismic risk in densely populated areas around the wor [...]