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Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering in Europe

16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering-Thessaloniki 2018

  • Presents the state-of-the-art and state-of-practice in earthquake engineering and risk assessment, written by internationally recognized academics, engineers, and scientists
  • Offers current state-of-the-art and practice, as well as new technologies on earthquake-resistant engineering structures, showing also the new trends from performance-based to resilience-based design of structures and infrastructures
  • Includes recent and ongoing developments in the entire spectrum of topics in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, research and practice

Conference proceedings info: ECEE 2018.

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Implications of Site Specific Response Analysis

    • Atilla Ansal, Gökçe Tönük, Aslı Kurtuluş
    Pages 51-68
  3. A Redefinition of Seismic Input for Design and Assessment

    • G. Michele Calvi, Daniela Rodrigues, Vitor Silva
    Pages 69-100
  4. Seismic Assessment of Existing Irregular Masonry Buildings by Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Analyses

    • Sergio Lagomarsino, Daniela Camilletti, Serena Cattari, Salvatore Marino
    Pages 123-151
  5. 3D Physics-Based Numerical Simulations: Advantages and Current Limitations of a New Frontier to Earthquake Ground Motion Prediction. The Istanbul Case Study

    • Roberto Paolucci, Maria Infantino, Ilario Mazzieri, Ali Güney Özcebe, Chiara Smerzini, Marco Stupazzini
    Pages 203-223
  6. Issues with the Use of Spatially Variable Seismic Ground Motions in Engineering Applications

    • Aspasia Zerva, Mohammad Reza Falamarz-Sheikhabadi, Masoud Khazaei Poul
    Pages 225-252
  7. Bridging the Gap Between Seismology and Engineering: Towards Real-Time Damage Assessment

    • Stefano Parolai, Michael Haas, Massimiliano Pittore, Kevin Fleming
    Pages 253-261
  8. Earthquake Geotechnics in Offshore Engineering

    • Amir M. Kaynia
    Pages 263-288
  9. The Dynamics of Rocking Isolation

    • Nicos Makris
    Pages 289-307
  10. Multistory Building Frames and Shear Walls Founded on “Rocking” Spread Footings

    • G. Gazetas, D. Dais, F. Gelagoti, R. Kourkoulis
    Pages 309-322
  11. Structural Health Monitoring for Seismic Protection of Structure and Infrastructure Systems

    • Oreste S. Bursi, Daniele Zonta, Emiliano Debiasi, Davide Trapani
    Pages 339-358
  12. Seismic Analysis and Design of Composite Steel/Concrete Building Structures Involving Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns

    • Konstantinos A. Skalomenos, George D. Hatzigeorgiou, Dimitri E. Beskos
    Pages 387-411

About this book

This book is a collection of invited lectures including the 5th Nicholas Ambraseys distinguished lecture, four keynote lectures and twenty-two thematic lectures presented at the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2018. The lectures are put into chapters written by the most prominent internationally recognized academics, scientists, engineers and researchers in Europe. They address a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge topics in earthquake engineering, engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management.

 The book is of interest to civil engineers, engineering seismologists, seismic risk managers, policymakers and consulting companies covering a wide spectrum of fields from geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering, to engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management. Scientists, professional engineers, researchers, civil protection policymakersand students interested in the seismic design of civil engineering structures and infrastructures, hazard and risk assessment, seismic mitigation policies and strategies, will find in this book not only the most recent advances in the state-of-the-art, but also new ideas on future earthquake engineering and resilient design of structures.



Chapter  1 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Kyriazis Pitilakis

About the editor

Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis is a Professor in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He took his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the same University and received his Ph.D. from Ecole Centrale de Paris. He has more than 35 years of intensive academic, research and professional experience in earthquake and geotechnical engineering. Currently Vice President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE), he has been Chairman and now Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Associated Problems" (TC203) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), and past President of the Greek Society of Earthquake Engineering and the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology in Greece (ITSAK). He served as Head of the Civil Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and he currently acts as the Director of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics, Foundations and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University (http://sdgee.civil.auth.gr/). Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis has vast experience in European research activities, acting as the coordinator of large European projects like EUROSEISTEST (http://euroseis.civil.auth.gr) and SYNER-G (www.syner-g.eu), and as participant in more than 30 European and national research projects. His main research and professional interests are in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, seismic design of foundations and infrastructures, soil dynamics, site effects and microzonation, vulnerability and risk assessment of civil engineering structures, infrastructures and monuments and lifeline earthquake engineering. He is  an author of more than 550 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and proceedings, and an author of several book chapters, an editor of three books published bySpringer, as well as a reviewer for numerous high impact scientific journals in his field of interest. Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis has been an invited keynote lecturer in many international and national congresses and conferences, while he is active member of national, European and international committees for seismic standards. The French Republic has honoured Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis for his scientific and academic merits as Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms (Ordre des Palmes Academiques).
Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis is the chairman of the 16th European Conference of Earthquake Engineering, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2018.

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