Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting

1. Seismic Monitoring to Assess Performance of Structures in Near-Real Time: Recent Progress
Mehmet Çelebi

2. Dance for Modern Times: Insurance, Economic Stability and Building Strength
Gabriela Chávez-López

3. A Critical Review of Current Assessment Procedures
Elena Mola, Paolo Negro

4. Risk Management and a Rapid Scoring Technique for Collapse Vulnerability of RC Buildings
Semih S. Tezcan, Ihsan Engin Bal, Fatma Gulten Gulay

5. The Importance of Plan-Wise Irregularity
Paolo Negro, Elena Mola

6. Advanced Composite Materials and Steel Retrofitting Techniques for Seismic Strengthening of Low-Rise Structures: Review
Houssam Toutanji, Holley Britton, M. Han

7. A Novel Structural Assessment Technique to Prevent Damaged FRP-Wrapped Concrete Bridge Piers from Collapse
Oral Buyukozturk, Tzu-Yang Yu

8. Strengthening of Low-Rise Concrete Buildings: Applications After Dinar (1995) and Adana-Ceyhan (1998) Earthquakes
Zekai Celep

9. Rehabilitation of Precast Industrial Buildings using Cables to Develop Diaphragm Action
Renjun Wang, James O. Jirsa, Sharon L. Wood

10. Vulnerability Evaluation and Retrofitting of Existing Building Heritage: an Italian Research Programme
Giandomenico Toniolo

11. Soft-Landing Base-Isolation System
Koichi Kusunoki, Masaomi Teshigawara

12. Development of a New Precast Concrete Panel Wall System Incorporated with Energy Dissipative Dowel Connectors
Huseyin Darama, Hitoshi Shiohara

13. Alternative Performance-Based Retrofit Strategies and Solutions for Existing RC Buildings
Stefano Pampanin

14. FRP Wrapping of RC Structures Submitted to Seismic Loads
Nathalie Roy, Pierre Labossière, Jean Proulx, Éric St-Georges, Patrick Paultre

15. Upgrading of Resistance and Cyclic Deformation Capacity of Deficient Concrete Columns
Dionysis Biskinis, Michael N. Fardis

16. Supplemental Vertical Support as a Means for Seismic Retrofit of Buildings
Craig D. Comartin

17. How to Predict the Probability of Collapse of Non-Ductile Building Structures
Helmut Krawinkler, Dimitrios G. Lignos

18. Strengthening of Brick Infilled Reinforced Concrete (RC) Frames with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) Sheets
Emre Akin, Guney Ozcebe, Ugur Ersoy

19. Improved Infill Walls and Rehabilitation of Existing Low-Rise Buildings
Faruk Karadogan, Sumru Pala, Alper Ilki, Ercan Yuksel, Waiel Mowrtage, Pinar Teymur, Gulseren Erol, Kivanc Taskin, Rasit Comlek

20. How to Simulate Column Collapse and Removal in As-built and Retrofitted Building Structures?
Mohamed M. Talaat, Khalid M. Mosalam

Keywords: Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Earth Sciences, general, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Building Materials