New improvements in the 2018 Turkish Seismic Code

2018-10-18
Turkey has official Seismic Code since 1940’s, which is updated regularly in conformance with the new developments in earthquake engineering, as well as the changing societal needs. The 2018 Seismic Code (AFAD 2018) has improved the 2007 Seismic Code (Ministry 2007) with an expanded content. The main improvements are on the definition of sitespecific design ground motions, and on the seismic design of tall buildings, base isolated buildings and pile foundations. Nonlinear analysis procedures are included as mandatory in particular cases, however advised for performance evaluation for the non-standard practices. From the administrative point of view, a new “Design Review and Supervision” system is established on the non-standard practices, which is a peer review process administered with a central, official public body.
The International Workshop on Advanced Materials and Innovative Systems in Structural Engineering: Seismic Practices IWAMISSE 2018

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Citation Formats
H. Sucuoğlu, “New improvements in the 2018 Turkish Seismic Code,” Istanbul, Turkey, 2018, p. 13, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87351.