The August 17, 1999 Marmara (Turkey) earthquake of magnitude (M-w = 7.4) struck the Marmara and Sakarya provinces in north-western part of Turkey. The earthquake caused substantial casualties and severe damages to structures. ...

In this paper, the obtained results from the experimental Studies describe the basic characteristics of wave propagation and ability of possible measures to reduce the impact of soil vibrations on structural response for ...

This research primarily aims to investigate experimentally the mechanical behavior and the crack pattern of the perforated brick block masonry specimens under shear stresses before and after reinforcing procedure with ...

Adapazari city is located on a very deep alluvial deposit and in a seismically active region. Due to the catastrophic earthquakes, the region had painful experiences in the past. The latest severe earthquake, called Marmara ...

The basic step in the substructure approach based on discretization of the soil medium for the soil-structure interaction problems is to determine the impedance functions which are defined as the complex dynamic-stiffness ...