Earthquake Resistant Design, Protection, and Performance Assessment in Earthquake Engineering

This book covers the latest advances in the popular research areas in Earthquake Engineering: Seismic Protection, Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring, as well as Seismic Performance Assessment. Part I includes seven chapters on seismic protection systems, a new passive isolation system for tower structures, frictional base isolation systems, period changeable isolation systems and presented applications, and recent developments in Italy, Japan and Macedonia. Also, particularities of design basis ground motion for long period structures are explained. Soil-Structure interaction models on the relevant subject are presented by classifying them. Part II presents three chapters on the new developments on Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for Performance Assessment of Structures. Applications and recent developments in USA, Canada, and Turkey are presented. Part III includes eight chapters on Seismic Performance Assessment. The subject of this part is presented on its following important components, and results are discussed: New criterion on performance based seismic design with application to a high-rise building; seismic design and performance assessment of a super tall concrete core wall building; seismic design and evaluation of high-performance modular tall timber building; challenges to detailed finite element analysis of entire building structures; seismic performance evaluation of traditional Japanese wooden houses with outer-frame reinforcement; dynamic response of pipeline, subjected to subsurface and surface blast explosion; bond behavior of sand-coated CFRP rebar embedded in concrete are given; seismic resistant large-span shell structures are presented. 

The book presents a concise summary of latest research findings, and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals in earthquake engineering, including graduate students, instructors, designers, and researches.

Part I Seismic Isolation Systems (SIS).- Part II New Developments on Non Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring For Performance Assessment of Structures.- Part III Seismic Performance Assessment.

Azer Arastunoglu Kasimzade is a Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Director of the Earthquake Engineering Scientific Research Center at Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction-AzUAC , Baku, Azerbaijan . He is also a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ondokuz Mayis University-OMU, Turkey. He currently serves as consultant, peer reviewer and as coordinating member of seismic code committee to the internationally partnerships projects subjected to Structural Seismic Isolation System and Modelling, Monitoring, Model Calibration, Assessment for Highly Reliable Structures. He has received his PhD and DSc degrees in Structural Mechanics from Moscow Civil Engineering University, USSR. They are related to the subject on modelling, safety and analysis problems of offshore platforms. He has worked with several international foundations around the world on earthquake resistant design problems and has authored several scientific publications, patent. He was awarded many research grants and Director of valuable projects in Japan, Turkey, and other countries. He is the recipient of the Science Promotion Award of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division, Science for Peace Award, USSR’s Ministry of High Education the Science Promotion Awards, Awards from many International Conferences. His professional expertise encompasses: Modelling, Monitoring, Model Calibration, Simulation, Seismic Protection, Seismic Retrofitting, Analysis and Performance Based Assessments for earthquake resistant design of Highly Reliable Structures.

Dr. Mustafa Erdik is a Professor Emeritus of Earthquake Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He currently serves as consultant to the Pakistani Government-SUPARCO, Lebanese Government-CDR, Turk-Re and DASK and, as the board members of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation and T-RUPT Technology Inc. He has received his BSc degree from Middle East Technical University, MSc and PhD degrees from Rice University, USA. He has worked with UN organizations, WB and several international foundations around the world on earthquake engineering problems and has authored about 400 scientific publications. He is the recipient of the Science Promotion Award of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, United Nation's Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award, Rotary Foundation Science Award, NATO’s Science for Peace – Summit Prize, Bruce Bolt Medal given by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA: Prof. Nicholas Ambraseys Distinguished Lecture Award given by the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and, Science Award by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. His professional expertise encompasses: earthquake hazard and risk assessment, earthquake insurance modeling, earthquake early warning and rapid response systems, earthquake resistant design of infrastructures (especially dams, tunnels and pipelines), earthquake protection of historical edifices and structural control (seismic isolation, tuned mass dampers). The research area of Professor Tribikram Kundu of the University of Arizona, USA is nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring.  He has published 9 books and 425 technical papers - 233 of those are in peer reviewed scientific journals. As of May 15, 2024 his publications have been cited 10,500 times according to Google Scholar with an h-index of 55 (Google Scholar), 46 (Scopus) and 40 (Web of Science). He received Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) in 2003, Humboldt Fellowship award in 1989 and 1996, Humbold Prize winner return visit awards in 2010, 2017 and 2024, all from Germany.  He was also received 2012NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE, 2015 Research Award for Sustained Excellence from ASNT, 2017 Founders Award from Nondestructive evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics Division (NDPD) of ASME,  2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Structrual Health Monitoring community, 2008 Person of the Year Award from the Structural Health Monitoring Journal, and a number of Invited & Honorary Professorships from France, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Poland, Singapore, India, China and Japan. He is a Fellow or a Distinguished Fellow of six professional societies (ASME, ASCE, SPIE, ASNT, ASA & IIAV) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems (JNDE). He has served as an associate editor of four other journals – Ultrasonics, Journal of the Acoustical Soci