Near-field earthquakes and their implications on seismic design codes

Linear modal combination procedure for structural dynamics Tanışer, Sadun; Sucuoğlu, Haluk; Department of Civil Engineering (2013) Earthquake engineering practice utilizes different analysis procedures in the estimation of seismic demands on structures. These procedures are mainly divided into two groups as static and dynamic procedures. Dynamic procedures are more accurate than the static procedures since they include the entire history of any response parameter during the ground motion. Nevertheless, there are also approximate but much simpler static analysis procedures that overcome high computational demands and inherent difficulti...
Energy based seismic evaluation of degrading systems Erberik, Murat Altuğ; Sucuoğlu, Haluk; Department of Civil Engineering (2001)
Experimental evaluation of geomembrane / geotextile interface as base isolating system Taheri Bonab, Amin; Gülerce, Zeynep; Kalpakcı, Volkan; Department of Civil Engineering (2016) The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of the composite liner seismic isolation system on the seismic response of small-to-moderate height structures. For this purpose, a building model with the natural frequency of 3.13 Hz (representing 3-4 story structures) was tested with and without the addition of composite liner system using the shaking table test set-up by employing harmonic and modified/ scaled ground motions. Experiment results showed that the composite liner seismic isolation system...
On-line web-based structural evaluation program development for existing reinforced concrete buildings against earthquakes Yücel, Mustafa Can; Türer, Ahmet; Department of Civil Engineering (2017) Structural assessment is a very hot topic in earthquake-prone countries since the evaluation of building stock is necessary for existing aged or shady buildings, after a major earthquake, or after major seismic code changes. Many different techniques are proposed in this context, but there are very limited studies on applying assessment methods using internet-based technologies even though web-based approaches will have many advantages such as formation of a building condition database, integration with oth...
Use of simulated strong ground motion records in earthquake engineering applications Karimzadeh Naghshineh, Shaghayegh; Askan Gündoğan, Ayşegül; Department of Civil Engineering (2016) With the recent advances in scientific computing, ground motion simulations have become more common. However, use of simulated motions for earthquake engineering purposes is still not well investigated. In this thesis, the efficiency of records simulated with the stochastic finite-fault technique in seismic demand estimation is studied in two different earthquake engineering applications. First, vulnerability assessment in a selected region, Erzincan (Turkey) is performed with simple single-degree-of-freedo...

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D. S. Akkar, “Near-field earthquakes and their implications on seismic design codes,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2001.