Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology: Volume 2

Table of contents

1. Supershear Earthquake Ruptures -- Theory, Methods, Laboratory Experiments and Fault Superhighways: An Update
Shamita Das

2. Civil Protection Achievements and Critical Issues in Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research
Mauro Dolce and Daniela Di Bucci

3. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Certitudes, Fallacies, Uncertainties and the Quest for Soundness
Kyriazis Pitilakis

4. Variability and Uncertainty in Empirical Ground-Motion Prediction for Probabilistic Hazard and Risk Analyses
Peter J. Stafford

5. Seismic Code Developments for Steel and Composite Structures
Ahmed Y. Elghazouli

6. Seismic Analyses and Design of Foundation Soil Structure Interaction
Alain Pecker

7. Performance-based Seismic Design and Assessment of Bridges
Andreas J. Kappos

8. An Algorithm to Justify the Design of Single Story Precast Structures
H.F. Karadogan, I.E. Bal, E. Yuksel, S. Ziya Yuce, Y.Durgun, and C. Soydan

9. Developments in Seismic Design of Tall Buildings: Preliminary Design of Coupled Core Wall Systems
M. Nuray Aydinoglu and Eren Vuran

10. Seismic Response of Underground Lifeline Systems
Selcuk Toprak, Engin Nacaroglu, and A. Cem Koc

11. Seismic Performance of Historical Masonry Structures Through Pushover and Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses
Sergio Lagomarsino and Serena Cattari

12. Developments in Ground Motion Predictive Models and Accelerometric D
ata Archiving in the Broader European Region
Sinan Akkar and Özkan Kale

13. Towards the "Ultimate Earthquake-proof" Building: Development of an Integrated Low-damage System
Stefano Pampanin

14. Archive of Historical Earthquake Data for the European-Mediterranean Area
Andrea Rovida and Mario Locati

15. A Review and Some New Issues on the Theory of the H/V Technique for Ambient VibrationsEnrico Lunedei and Peter Malischewsky

16. Macroseismic Intervention Group: The Necessary Field Observation
Christophe Sira

17. Bridging the Gap Between Nonlinear Seismology as Reality and Earthquake Engineering
Gheorghe Marmureanu, Carmen-Ortanza Cioflan , Alexandru Marmureanu , Constantin Ionescu, Elena-Florinela Manea

18. The Influence of Earthquake Magnitude on Hazard Related to Induced Seismicity
Benjamin Edwards

19. On the Origin of Mega-thrust Earthquakes
Kuvvet Atakan