The traditional methods utilized in today's seismic design of structures involve structure's foundation as a fixed base by assuming soil does not deforms. Earthquake input motion is also considered as a horizontal movement ...

The outcomes of the ambient vibration measurements carried out to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of the reinforced concrete field test structure were presented. The test building was designed according to Turkish ...

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a method widely used all over the world for transport project appraisal. However, this method needs to handle the inherent uncertainty which affects the results negatively. In a highway ...

An efficient, economical and practical strengthening method for hollow brick infill walls was proposed and investigated in the present study, experimentally and numerically. This method aims at increasing the overall lateral ...

In this study, we explore three different strategies for such situation; 1) Extreme approach that reprovisions all connections in danger with full or degraded bandwidth, 2) relax approach that reprovisions only critical ...

Compression index is the slope of the void ratio-effective stres (log) curve obtained in the odometer test. It is an important parameter used to predict consolidation settlement of fine-grained soils. In this study, fuzzy ...

With the ongoing developments in numerical analysis methods, it is possible to model the soil-foundation-structure interaction and nonlinear load-deformation behavior of soils in three-dimensional calculations. In light ...