Seismic Isolation, Structural Health Monitoring, and Performance Based Seismic Design in Earthquake Engineering: Recent Developments

Azer Arastunoglu Kasimzade is currently the Head of the Civil Engineering Department and head of the Earthquake Engineering Research facility of Ondokuz Mayis University in Samsun, Turkey. He received his PhD. and D.Sc. degrees in structural mechanics from Moscow Civil Engineering University in the Russian Federation respectively in 1983 and 1991. In 1991 he was a short-term visiting scholar at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and at Princeton University, Department of Civil Engineering & Operation Research, New Jersey, USA. In the period 1992-1995 he was a professor at the Civil Engineering University, Department of Structural Mechanics. From 1978 to 1995 Kasimzade worked as Engineer and Consulting Engineer on national and international projects related to the development, structural modelling, testing, analysis and design of offshore petrol-gas production platforms in the Soviet Union Main Research & Project Institute Gipromorneftegaz, Mingazprom. Since 1995, he is a professor at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey, and is the Head of the Structural Mechanics group. In 2012-2013 he was appointed NATO project director for Science for Peace and Security Project, by the NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division. In 2014-2015 Kasimzade was visiting professor at the Department of Architecture, Kobe University, Japan. In October 2016 he was the chair of the "International Congress on Advanced Earthquake Resistant Structures-AERS2016".He is a member of several national and international professional societies and advisory committees, the author of monographs, books and more than 110 papers and reports on structural modelling, earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, modal testing and system identification.
Since 2008 Erdal Safak has been Head of the Earthquake Engineering Department of Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. From 1984 to 2006 he was a Researcher and Section Head at the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Research Group in the United States, and held part-time Professorship positions at Stanford University in California, Colorado School of Mines in Colorado, and at George Washington University in Washington DC. In 1973 and 1975 he received his BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University, and in 1980 a PhD. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US. He has published more than 40 refereed journal papers and more than 100 conference papers on subjects related to earthquake and wind induced response of structures, including seismic hazard and risk analysis, ground motion modeling, site amplification, structural instrumentation, data analysis, and system identification.
Carlos Ventura is a Civil Engineer with specializations in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. Since 1992, he has been a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He is currently the Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility (EERF) at UBC, and the author of more than 450 papers and reports on earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and modal testing. Dr. Ventura has conducted research on earthquakes and structural dynamics for more than thirty years. Two of his most significant contributions in recent years are the development and implementation of a seismic structural health monitoring program for bridges in BC - the BCSIMS project - and the first network-based earthquake early warning system for schools and public institutions in BC, the BC-EEWN project. These two projects have contributed in a very significant manner to the seismic risk reduction efforts in British Columbia. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Ventura is a recognized international consultant on structural vibrations and safety of large Civil Engineering structures. He is a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and of the Engi

This book features chapters based on selected presentations from the International Congress on Advanced Earthquake Resistance of Structures, AERS2016, held in Samsun, Turkey, from 24 to 28 October 2016.

It covers the latest advances in three widely popular research areas in Earthquake Engineering: Performance-Based Seismic Design, Seismic Isolation Systems, and Structural Health Monitoring.

The book shows the vulnerability of high-rise and seismically isolated buildings to long periods of strong ground motions, and proposes new passive and semi-active structural seismic isolation systems to protect against such effects. These systems are validated through real-time hybrid tests on shaking tables.

Structural health monitoring systems provide rapid assessment of structural safety after an earthquake and allow preventive measures to be taken, such as shutting down the elevators and gas lines, before damage occurs. Using the vibration data from instrumented tall buildings, the book demonstrates that large, distant earthquakes and surface waves, which are not accounted for in most attenuation equations, can cause long-duration shaking and damage in tall buildings.

The overview of the current performance-based design methodologies includes discussions on the design of tall buildings and the reasons common prescriptive code provisions are not sufficient to address the requirements of tall-building design. In addition, the book explains the modelling and acceptance criteria associated with various performance-based design guidelines, and discusses issues such as selection and scaling of ground motion records, soil-foundation-structure interaction, and seismic instrumentation and peer review needs.

The book is of interest to a wide range of professionals in earthquake engineering, including designers, researchers, and graduate students.

Part I: Seismic Isolation Systems

1.1  New seismic isolation systems                                          

1.2 Simple natural seismic isolation systems for buildings with no overturning moment 

1.3  Development of resilient seismic response control with a semi-active system   

Part II: New Developments on Structural Health Monitoring and Earthquake Early Warning Systems for Performance Assessment of Structures

2.1  BC Earthquake Early Warning System, A Program for Seismic Structural Health Monitoring of infrastructure    

2.2   Structural Health Monitoring: Lessons learned       

2.3     Recent studies on earthquake performance assessment of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul      

2.4   Evaluation of historical Merzifon Dönertas Mosque with a single dome

2.5   Analytical and experimental modal analysis of a cold formed steel (CFS) model structure using microtremor excitation  

2.6 Optimal estimation of dynamic Parameters from ambient vibrations      

2.7  Seismicity and tectonics of Black Sea     

Part III: Performance Based Seismic Design    

3.1  Performance Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings - A USA Perspective         

3.2  Performance-Based evaluation of hydrocarbon steel pipes under internal impact   

3.3  Seismic energy demands of inverted V- Braced frames

3.4  A new approach to improving seismic safety based on the energy theory of reinforced concrete resistance       

3.5  Free flexural vibrations of axially loaded Timoshenko beams with internal viscous damping using dynamic stiffness formulation and differential transformation

3.6  Behavior of RC square column strengthened with CFRP strips subjected to low velocity lateral impact loading

3.7  Strain-based seismic performance evaluation of prefabricated structures.