Buildings, bridges, roads, and other infrastructure essential to our economic and social well-
being are at an increasing risk from hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat …

This article examines informal housing/non-compliant development and related
formalisation practices in Turkey. An in-depth policy analysis is conducted within a historical …

Abstract Machine learning models are regarded as efficient and popular models for natural
disaster susceptibility prediction. However, few studies have focussed on the applications of …

Turkey is the one country in which 90% of the buildings are subject to the risk of earthquake
disaster. Recent earthquakes revealed that Turkey's present residential reinforced-concrete …

Reinforced concrete (RC) moment frames are used as lateral seismic load resisting systems
in mid-and high-rise buildings in different regions of the world. Based on the seismic design …

The catastrophic earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila in early April 2009 caused
extensive damage to buildings at the University of L'Aquila. Among these edifices are those …

Recently, Turkey has been hit by several moderate to large earthquakes that resulted in
significant loss of life and property. The 1998 Adana and 1999 Marmara earthquakes …

Systems thinking and analysis from the civil and environmental engineering communities
have been highly successful in mitigating the effects of natural and man-made hazards. Not …

The aim of the study is to compare and evaluate structural response demands obtained from
nonlinear static analysis procedures (NSPs) which are displacement coefficient method …

A significant proportion of the urban areas in Turkey is subject to high seismic risk. An
important step for seismic risk mitigation is to define the hazard and damage after an …