Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings : Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop, Izmir, Turkey, from 13 to 14 May 2003

The buildings, which may once have conformed to seismic codes need upgrading or 'retrofitting'. This work is aimed at specialist engineers with enquiring minds and those who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region.

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.