Turkey is located on one of the most active earthquake zones. Therefore, it is faced with the earthquake danger at any moment. Earthquakes in Turkey, has led to many tang [...]

The seismic isolation approach is extremely rational approach especially for low-rise and medium-rise buildings with natural periods close to fundamental periods, i.e., b [...]

The basic idea of seismic isolation is based on reduction of the earthquake induced inertia loads by shifting the fundamental period of the structure out of dangerous res [...]

The increase in the number of terrorist attacks especially in the last few years has shown that the effect of blast loads on buildings is a serious matter that should be [...]