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  • Fragility Based Assessment of a School Building in Turkey 
    Hüseyin, Bilgin (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    This study focuses on, by means of a probabilistic approach, the seismic safety evaluation of a school building in Turkey designed before the introduction of modern anti-seismic codes. A typical school building which was ...
  • Design Chart for Reinforced Concrete Rectangular Section 
    K. H., Bayagoob; Yavuz, Yardim; S. A., Ramoda (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Design charts are very useful for fast determining the percentage of reinforcement for singly and doubly reinforced concrete beams having known cross-sectional dimensions, characteristic strengths of the concrete and ...
  • Suspended Steel Roof of the Archeological Site of the School of Aristotle 
    Charis J., Gantes; Koulatsou, Konstantina (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The structural design of the cable-suspended steel roof covering the archaeological site of the School of Aristotle in Athens, Greece is presented. The preliminary architectural proposal, which was awarded first prize ...
  • Effects of Soil-Foundation-Bridge Interaction Subjected to Spatially Varying Earthquake Ground Motion 
    Kuyumcu, Zeliha; Ates, Sevket (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The primary purpose of this study is to investigate stochastic responses of a cable-stayed bridge which is built on the Mississippi River in 1987 in USA, subjected to the spatially varying earthquake ground motion by ...
  • Determination of Pipeline Damages during Earthquakes Considering Different Soil Formations 
    Koçak, Ali; Özçoban, Mehmet Şükrü; Ali, Coşar; Murat Ergenekon, Selçuk (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    It is necessary that infrastructure systems in urban areas remain functional, especially during various disasters. Drinking water should be provided without any disruption and waste water disposed without any adverse ...
  • Comparative Dynamic Analysis of Existing Construction and Construction with Superstructure 
    Ibraimi, Shpresim (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The impossibility to provide building land in central urban areas imposes the need for new housing. The subject of this paper is to make a comparative dynamic analysis of different reinforced concrete structural systems, ...
  • Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Space Frame 
    Hussein, Ghedan; Taysi, Nildem (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Structural design of space frames requires appropriate form for a structure so that it can carry the imposed loads safely and economically. Traditional approaches towards the task of finding such forms for structures ...
  • Artificial Time Histories of Wind ActionsFor Structural Analysis of Wind Turbines 
    Koulatsou, Konstantina; Petrini, Francesco; Vernardos, Stelios; Gantes, Charis J. (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    A computational method for generating artificial time histories of wind loads on wind turbine towers is presented, based on wind turbine aerodynamics and a wind field model. First, the forces acting on the blades parallel ...
  • Seismic Evaluation of a Large Network of Bridges by Simplified Automated Procedures and Consequent System Identifications by Dynamic Tests 
    Islami, Kleidi; Modena, Claudio (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    This work presents the seismic evaluation of a large network of infrastructures located in the Veneto Region in the North-East of Italy. A large bridge database was subject to investigation, and simplified automated ...
  • Structural Reliability and the Partial Factors for Materials 
    Isufi, Brisid; Baballëku, Markel (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Structural Eurocodes introduce an important concept, the “structural reliability”. The Albanian code “KTP – Kushtet Teknike të Projektimit”, does not define this term. From this, several difficulties might arise, ranging ...
  • Numerical Analysis of Buried Steel Pipelines 
    Gantes, Charis J.; Melissianos, Vasileios (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Various alternative numerical analysis methods that are used to simulate the response of buried steel pipelines subjected to large imposed displacements triggered by seismic fault activation are presented. Due to the ...
  • The Application of “Capacity Design” in a RC Building Frame Structure 
    Roshi, Artur; Saraçi, Iskra (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Many countries throughout the world have accepted the concept for design of RC buildings based on the “capacity design” methology.This has been proved also by the Eurocode-8 that is largerly based on this method.The main ...
  • Analysis and Optimum Design of Curved Roof Structures 
    Saber, Galawezh; Tayşi, Nildem; Hussein, Ghaedan (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Curved steel buildings are frequently designed to supply the users of the structure with ordinary light with a sense of capaciousness as well as grandness in public facilities such as stations, buying malls, leisure ...
  • Investigation of Dynamic Shear Amplification of Cantilever Wall Systems 
    ŞAHİN, Hümeyra; ALYAMAÇ, Kürşat Esat; ERDOĞAN, Ali Sayıl (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Reinforced concrete structural walls are widely used in design of the lateral load resisting systems. Reinforced concrete structural walls allowed to economic and architectural designs in accordance with directions in ...
  • Recent Seismic Activity of the Lezha-Ulqini Seismogenic Zone and its Associated Hazard 
    Rrapo, Ormeni; Edmond, Dushi; Astrit, Shatro; Adisa, Daberdini; Fatmir, Basholli (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The results of the analysis, based on the parameters of events and some features of seismicity that have occurred in the Lezha-Ulqini seismogenic zone during period of time 2001-2012, are presented in this paper. This ...
  • Dynamic Responses of Bridges under Effects of Asynchronous and Multiple Support Excitations 
    Sarıtaş, Fevzi (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Nonstationary earthquakes are very complex ground motions and they vibrate structural systems in asynchronous form. Spatial variation of an earthquake mainly originates from three sources; loss of coherence effects, wave ...
  • THE DESIGN OF SLENDER RC COLUMNS 
    Lluka, Diana; Guri, Merita; Hajdari, Veronika; Ndoj, Alketa (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The paper presents the design method for slender reinforced concrete column based on design code EC2. Rarely, when the column height is longer than typical story height and/or the column section is small relative to ...
  • Design Issues for Axially Loaded Anchors in Strengthening Applications 
    Özen, Muhammet Ali; Yılmaz, Salih (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Over the past few decades, due to the developments of chemical adhesives, usage of anchorages is spread out in strengthening applications. Anchorages have a vital role to ensure those applications accurate. In case of ...
  • Capacity Increase for Existing Steel Bridges Using Prestressed Cables 
    Nuhoğlu, Ayhan; Yücekul, Kemal; Korkmaz, Kasım A. (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In the present study, a practical approach is proposed for geometric nonlinear analysis of existing steel bridges. The approach is defined by finite element displacement direct rigidity procedure, which is based on an ...
  • Load Testing Results of new Road Bridges In Bosnia and Herzegovina 
    Rahimić, Đani (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In this paper the results of load testing of several new road bridges constructed in Bosnia and Herzegovina are presented. Load testing of new road bridges with spans larger than 15m, prior to setting them into operation, ...

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