Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

Abstract

Bringing to Buildings the Healing Touch.- The Velocity of Displacement.- Preliminary Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings In Turkey.- Parameters Affecting Damageability of Reinforced Concrete Members.- Parameters Affecting Damageability of Reinforced Concrete Members.- Peak Ground Velocity Sensitive Deformation Demands and a Rapid Damage Assessment Approach.- Simple Survey Procedures for Seismic Risk Assessment in Urban Building Stocks.- The Use of Microtremors for Soil and Site Characterisation and Microzonation Applications.- Estimation of Earthquake Damage Probabilities for Reinforced Concrete Buildings.- Just How Prescient are our Building Damage Predictions?.- Condition Assessment Techniques Used for Non-Building Structures.- Seismic Assessment of Existing RC Buildings.- Experimental Research on Vulnerability and Retrofitting of Old-Type RC Columns under Cyclic Loading.- Earthquake Engineering, Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Seismic Rehabilitation in Colombia.- Strengthening of Infilled Walls with CFRP Sheets.- Structural Behaviour of Ordinary RC Bare and Brittle Partitioned Frames with and Without Lap Splice Deficiency.- Seismic Retrofit of R/C Frames with CFRP Overlays.- Experimental Response of a Precast Infill Wall System.- A Comparative Study on The Strengthening of RC Frames.- Occupant Friendly Seismic Retrofit (OFR) of RC Framed Buildings.- Seismic Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Structures.- Experimental and Analytical Investigation of 1/3-Model R/C Frame-Wall Building Structures PART I (Model Design and Analytical Evaluation of Dynamic Characteristics of the Model).- II (Nonlinear Analytical Prediction of Structural Behavior).- A Building Code is of Value only if it is Enforced.- Educational Aspects of SfP977231 - Spreading the Insight.- Acknowledgments.