Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

1. Front Matter

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2. Bringing to Buildings the Healing Touch

   • Syed Tanvir Wasti, Ugur Ersoy

   Pages 1-10

3. The Velocity of Displacement

   • Mete A. Sozen

   Pages 11-28

4. Preliminary Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Turkey

   • G. Ozcebe, M. S. Yucemen, V. Aydogan, A. Yakut

   Pages 29-42

5. Preliminary Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Turkey

   • A. Yakut, V. Aydogan, G. Ozcebe, M. S. Yucemen

   Pages 43-58

6. Parameters Affecting Damageability of Reinforced Concrete Members

   • Emrah Erduran, Ahmet Yakut

   Pages 59-76

7. Peak Ground Velocity Sensitive Deformation Demands and a Rapid Damage Assessment Approach

   • Sinan Akkar, Haluk Sucuoglu

   Pages 77-96

8. Simple Survey Procedures for Seismic Risk Assessment in Urban Building Stocks

   • Haluk Sucuoglu, Ufuk Yazgan

   Pages 97-118

9. The Use of Microtremors for Soil and Site Characterisation and Microzonation Applications

   • Kyriazis Pitilakis

   Pages 119-148

10. Estimation of Earthquake Damage Probabilities for Reinforced Concrete Buildings

    • M. S. Yucemen, A. Askan

    Pages 149-164

11. Just How Prescient are our Building Damage Predictions?

    • P. Gulkan, B. S. Bakir, A. Yakut, M. T. Yilmaz

    Pages 165-192

12. Condition Assessment Techniques Used for Non-Building Structures

    • Ahmet Turer

    Pages 193-214

13. Seismic Assessment of Existing RC Buildings

    • Michael N. Fardis, Telemachos B. Panagiotakos, Dionysis Biskinis, Antonis Kosmopoulos

    Pages 215-244

14. Experimental Research on Vulnerability and Retrofitting of Old-Type RC Columns Under Cyclic Loading

    • Stathis N. Bousias, Michael N. Fardis

    Pages 245-268

15. Earthquake Engineering, Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Seismic Rehabilitation in Colombia

    • Luis E. Garcia

    Pages 269-304

16. Strengthening of Infilled Walls with CFRP Sheets

    • Ugur Ersoy, Guney Ozcebe, Tugrul Tankut, Ugurhan Akyuz, Emrah Erduran, Ibrahim Erdem

    Pages 305-334

17. Structural Behaviour of Ordinary RC Bare and Brittle Partitioned Frames with and without Lap Splice Deficiency

    • Faruk Karadogan, Ercan Yuksel, Alper Ilki

    Pages 335-356

18. Seismic Retrofit of R/C Frames with CFRP Overlays

    • Sevket Ozden, Umut Akguzel, Turan Ozturan

    Pages 357-382

19. Experimental Response of a Precast Infill Wall System

    • Robert J. Frosch, James O. Jirsa, Michael E. Kreger

    Pages 383-406

20. A Comparative Study on the Strengthening of RC Frames

    • Ibrahim Erdem, Ugurhan Akyuz, Ugur Ersoy, Guney Ozcebe

    Pages 407-432

The present volume contains a total of 23 papers centred on the research area of Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings. This subject also forms the core of Project SfP977231, sponsored by the NATO Science for Peace Office and supported by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey [ TUBIT AK ]. Most of these papers were presented by the authors at a NATO Science for Peace Workshop held in Izmir on 13 - 14 May, 2003 and reflect a part of their latest work conducted within the general confines of the title of the NATO Project. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey serves as the hub of Project SfP977231 and coordinates research under the project with universities within Turkey, e. g. Istanbul Technical University and Kocaeli University, and with partner institutions in Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: A few articles have also been contributed by invited experts, who are all noted researchers in the field. Altogether, the contents of the volume deal with a vast array of problems in Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation and cover a wide range of possible solutions, techniques and proposals. It is intended to touch upon many of these aspects separately below. Earthquakes constitute possibly the most widely spread and also the most feared of natural hazards. Recent earthquakes within the first six months of 2003, such as the Bingol Earthquake in Turkey and the Algerian earthquake, have caused both loss of life and severe damage to property.

• earthquake
• finite element method
• seismic
• stochastic processes
• structure

"At the turn of the last century, builders pondering the havoc wreaked by earthquakes had scant resources to guide their reconstruction efforts. A century later, earthquakes continue tragic devastations of our cities, with one important difference - today's builders can turn to a rich literature in earthquake engineering to guide their reconstruction efforts. This volume on Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Buildings is bound to become one of the valued resources of earthquake engineers who are building to reduce the tragedies of future earthquakes.
The volume is filled with brilliant contributions from renowned experts in earthquake engineering. Topics include seismic earthquake strong ground motion, dynamic response of structures, seismic assessment of older hazardous construction, and practical seismic rehabilitation methods derived from extensive laboratory and field research. Many of the contributions have been motivated by the tragic consequences, yet real-world experiences, of the 1999 Kocaeli and Düzce earthquakes in Turkey, and demonstrate the rapid progress that can be inspired by necessity. While the topic of this volume is especially important for Turkey and her neighbors, the lessons learned and clearly presented are universal and should be studied by serious earthquake engineers worldwide.
Among the volume's contents is a quote from W. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III: "Are you not mov'd, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm?"
The earthquake engineering community can be thankful that Professors S. Tanvir Wasti and Güney Özcebe, Middle East Technical University, were moved to organize the workshop and associated papers that form the contents of this memorable volume. Their effort, documented in this volume, is one of great and lasting value."
(Jack Moehle, Professor and Director, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley (July2003)

• Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

  S. Tanvir Wasti, Guney Ozcebe

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