A standard highway bridge has usually multi simple spans supported over piers by elastomeric bearings in Turkey. The bearings usually do not provide a positive connection [...]

Besides their primary implementation as heat isolation and partitioning off the living space, infill walls have great potential to influence building response during seis [...]

In order to mitigate seismic risk in urban regions, the first task is to identify potential seismic losses in future earthquakes. Seismic loss estimation is an interdisci [...]

Loss estimation studies exercised for seismically active regions generally require fragility analyses to be performed which necessitate the use of ground motion records. [...]

Masonry structures constitute a significant portion of the building stock in many countries with high seismic regions. Understanding the load carrying mechanisms of such [...]

The building structures are generally irregular and regularity is only an idealization that rarely occurs. Structural irregularity may be classified as in- plan and in-el [...]

Past destructive earthquakes in Turkey have revealed that seismic performance of existing school buildings is inadequate as evidenced by significant damage experienced by [...]

There is a large building stock built in earthquake regions where earthquakes frequently occur. It is very probable that such buildings experience earthquakes more than o [...]

Istanbul, a 2500-year old city, is under threat of a devastating earthquake. Reflecting past experience a very high probability of occurrence has been postulated for an M [...]

Base isolation systems are applied in building systems to improve their seismic performance by isolating the structure from full intensity of the seismic input at the gro [...]