DBELA is a Displacement-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment methodology for urban areas which relates the displacement capacity of the building stock to the displacement demand from earthquake scenarios. The building stock is modeled as a random population of building classes with varying geometrical and …

Elke dag worden wij geconfronteerd met de internationalisering van ons bestaan en met het doorbreken van grenzen. Dramatische gebeurtenissen zoals terreuraanslagen in New York, Moskou, Istanbul of Madrid, maar ook zaken als de georganiseerde misdaad, de uitbraak van ziekten in de veestapel, de immigratie, …

Based on the soil data established previously by a team of researchers at the Technical University of Istanbul, a wave amplification study is conducted for the town of Avcılar, Istanbul, located at about 120 km west of the epicentre of the Kocaeli earthquake of August 17, 1999. It is determined, through …