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  • The Effect of Seismic Isolation on the Dynamic Behavior of Cable-Stayed Bridges 
    Barbaros, Atmaca; Muhammet, Yurdakul; Sevket, Ates (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The earthquake effects on cable-stayed bridges isolated by single concave friction pendulum (SCFP) are investigated in this study. Reducing ways of the destructive earthquake effects are getting vital important for ...
  • Effect of Seismicity on Infrastructure Pipelines 
    Ali, Coşar; Ali, Koçak; Mehmet Şükrü, Özçoban; Cem, Akgüner (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    One of the important conditions of sustaining a healthy life is the quality of city water in residential environments and removal of wastes from living spaces. Therefore it is necessary that infrastructure systems we use ...
  • The effect of sodium chloride treatment on bending strength of silver fir wood (Abies alba Mill.) 
    Ajdinaj, Dritan; Kapidani, Arian (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Among properties which characterize the application of silver fir wood (Abies alba Mill.) in buildings is its static bending strength. In the framework of improvement of this mechanical property, a comparative experimental ...
  • Effects of hydraulics structures on dissolved oxygen concentration: A case study from the stream Harsit, Eastern Black Sea Basin, Turkey 
    BAYRAM, Adem; ONSOY, Hizir; BULUT, Volkan Numan; BAYRAK, Aydin (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    A sufficient supply of dissolved oxygen (DO) is vital for all higher aquatic life. The problems associated with low concentrations of DO in rivers have been recognized for over a century. The impacts of low DO concentrations ...
  • The Effects of Material Properties on Building Performance 
    Tekeli, Hamide; Dilmaç, Hakan; Erkan, K. Tuğçe; Demir, Fuat; Güler, Kadir (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In recent earthquakes during the last two decades, severe damages have been occurred on the existing buildings in Turkey. Destructive earthquakes revealed that the existing building stock in urban regions is significantly ...
  • 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 ...
  • The effects of urban rail transportation projects on urban areas: Case study of Izmir 
    Egercioğlu, Yakup; Çete, Mehmet; Yalçıner, Sezer (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Starting in the late nineteenth century rail network expansion activities in large cities of developed countries has been in trouble because of the energy crisis in the 1970s, but the rail system works in the 1990s ...
  • Efficiency of Transmitting Boundaries on Dynamic Response of Soil- Structure Interaction Systems 
    Sesli, Hasan; Akköse, Mehmet (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In this study, efficiency of transmitting boundaries which is one of the local procedures is investigated for dynamic analysis of the soil-structure interaction systems and the results are compared with traditional ...
  • Estimated the amount of air void in concrete using image processing technique 
    Başyiğit, Celalettin; Çomak, Bekir; Kılınçarslan, Şemsettin (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Image processing methods have been widely used in civil engineering recently. Image processing is reproducing the processes people got via their own vision system by digitizing. The aim of this study is to define air ...
  • Evaluation of Cost-Effectiveness for Different Sealant Materials Used in Highway Maintenance Operations 
    Eren, Adem; Korkmaz, Kasım Armağan; Yıldırım, Yetkin (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    An important element in pavement maintenance practices is the sealing and filling of cracks. Hot pour materials are the most commonly used material, providing good performance for most of the cases. However, some maintenance ...
  • Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Structural Package Programs 
    Ali, DEMİR; Muhiddin, BAĞCI; Hakan, BAŞARAN (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Seismic performances of the structures shall be investigated due to lack of strength, seismic forces and change of intended purpose. Package softwares are developed to perform the complicated performance analyses easily. ...
  • Experimental building techniques in the 1930’s: the “Pater” system in the Ex- Circolo Skanderbeg of Tirana 
    Menghini, Anna Bruna (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The subject of this study concerns the constructive experimentation developed in Italy and in its areas of influence around the '30s, in a period of autarchic economy. We investigate some techniques, many of which still ...
  • Experimental comparison of cracks width and cracks spacing results for beams of self-compacting concrete (SCC) and conventional concrete for period t = 400 days 
    Sadiku, Hajdar E.; Hoxha, Zijadin; Osmanaj, Berim; Sadiku, Fatos (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Concrete is a material which has found a wide usage in engineering especially in construction engineering and road infrastructure facilities. Development trends for high rise constructions, modern skyscrapers indicate ...
  • “The face of the stone“: Traditional construction and tectonic innovation 
    Barone, Francesca (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Through the tectonic metaphor will investigate the relationship between the construction and expression in modern stone facade, meant as the first element of the representation and relationship between the building ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fresh and hardened properties of steel fiber reinforced concrete produced with fibers of different lengths and diameters 
    Acikgenc, Merve; Alyamac, Kursat Esat; Ulucan, Zulfu Cinar (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Concrete is a brittle material which has a low tensile strength and a low tensile strain capacity. These weak points of concrete can be resolved by including fibers made of different materials with high technical ...
  • Friedrick II of Swabian: the castle builder. New stereotomic techniques and engineering innovation in gothic construction. 
    Occhinegro, Ubaldo (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    This contribute highlights the main architectural aspects and building issues of the Federician architecture, by which we specifically mean all those constructions - most exclusively military and civil - Frederick II of ...
  • The future of insulation: Vacuum insulation panels 
    Davraz, Metin; Bayrakçı, H.Cenk (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Vacuum insulation panels have higher efficient materials than the insulation materials which have known their heat insulation properties. Heat insulation could be provided by vacuum insulation panels ten times according ...
  • 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 ...
  • Historical vaulted constructions of the Iranian heritage. 
    Petralla, Stefania (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Brickwork, upon which architectural building is essentially based in Iran, was initiated by masons who, all along the Islamic period, made brick art never lagged behind other arts. In Iran, although the most primary ...

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