The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque in Edirnekapı, Istanbul is a 16th century building by Architect Sinan. The building was damaged in the earthquakes of 1719, 1766, 1814, 1894 a [...]

The study presents a comparative damage assessment exercise for high-code buildings in Istanbul under the earthquake ground motion level with a 10% probability of exceeda [...]

Hagia Sophia is one of the most prominent architectural and structural creations in the history of mankind. Built in the 6th century, it has a remarkable size and structu [...]

Tall and slender structures have distinct features in their dynamic behavior. A very particular group is the minarets. The historical ones are masonry, while the modern m [...]

The paper presents an approach to identify the characteristics of layered soil media from the records of vertical downhole arrays. It is assumed that the behavior of soil [...]

Minarets are important elements of mosques. These slender structures have suffered notable damage as a result of past earthquakes. In this paper three historical masonry [...]

Structural fragility functions are derived for a 20-story reinforced concrete moment-resisting frame building as well as for a 50-story reinforced concrete frame-wall bui [...]

Large magnitude earthquakes originating from distant sources produce long period waves that potentially travel over long distances without significant attenuation. The re [...]

Minarets are slender structures. Old ones are mostly made of cut-stone-block masonry and occasionally of brick masonry, while the new ones are generally of reinforced con [...]

Response of multi-story buildings can be formulated as a one-dimensional wave propagation problem in terms of wave velocities and frictional damping values at each story, [...]