The seismic risk of buildings are of great concern of societies as the loss of buildings interests both the public administration and the insurance companies. More importantly, the collapse of the buildings unfortunately ...

In this thesis study; different from widely used but restricted number of existing approaches in the literature, subgrade reaction modulus is determined as a function of geometrical (width, thickness and length of foundation ...

A global dataset which is composed of more than 20,000 records is used to develop an empirical nonlinear soil amplification model for crustal earthquakes. The model also includes the deep soil effect. The soil nonlinearity ...