During the last fifty years, bridge construction has increased extensively throughout the world, including on areas with bad soil conditions, to meet the transportation needs of expanding urban areas. Although Soil-Struc ...

An important portion of pre-code building stock in Istanbul runs significant earthquake risk. Given a building class, the uncontrolled construction of pre-code buildings in the past leads to a considerable model variability ...

In this study we attempt to estimate parameters that are related to path and near-surface effects, due to earthquakes that occurred in northwestern Turkey, by drawing on data from the Istanbul Earthquake Rapid Response ...

The number of tall buildings has been increasing all around the world due to the current population growth and limited space in city centers. After major earthquakes, countries located in earthquake-prone areas face ...

Nonlinear Response History Analyses (NLRHA) have been frequently used in seismic isolation system design since the displacement at long period end of the codebased spectra is limited to a certain value and may not accommodate ...

In certain regions of the country, designing deep foundations to withstand seismic loading is a reality. Seismic loading of structures and foundations reach a critical state as the laterally applied force increases. ...

Laser scanning technology is one of the most e cient solutions for generating three-dimensional data. Besides its use in areas such as archaeology, biology, geology, architecture, it has been used for various purposes in ...

Coastal areas are in a state of continual flux, due in part to seasonal factors and in part, to influences operating over longer periods of time. Discerning between these two types of causes remains a challenge. This study ...

Sadabat V3 was designed in the late 1980's as a connector highway bridge in conjunction of Okrneydam and Hastal on ball-Sakarya motonvay route, which is a major component of the transportation system of Istanbul. The bridge ...

In recent decades the number of high-rise buildings in Turkey has increased considerably and still growing in number at a high pace. However, there is very limited research on the in-situ behavior of these buildings in ...