Earthquakes and Tsunamis Civil Engineering Disaster Mitigation Activ
Earthquakes and tsunamis are two major natural disasters, causing enormous life and material losses over the entire world, especially in the developing countries that are not well prepared. Since earthquakes and tsunamis are natural phenomena that cannot
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GEOTECHNICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Volume 11 Series Editor Atilla Ansal, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bo˘gazic¸i University, Istanbul, Turkey Editorial Advisory Board Julian Bommer, Imperial College London, U.K. Jonathan D. Bray, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Kyriazis Pitilakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
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Earthquakes and Tsunamis Civil Engineering Disaster Mitigation Activities Implementing Millennium Development Goals
edited by
A. TUGRUL TANKUT Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Editor A. Tugrul Tankut Department of Civil Engineering Middle East Technical University 0651 Ankara Turkey [email protected]
ISSN 1573-6059 ISBN 978-90-481-2398-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2399-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2399-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926872 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The present volume consists of eleven keynote papers presented at the Earthquake and Tsunami conference jointly organised by the World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE), the European Council of Civil Engineers (ECCE) and the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers (TCCE) to be held on 22–24 June 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. Natural disasters have always been an area of prime concern for all of the three organising institutions. The proposal of TCCE to jointly organise a conference on earthquake and tsunami was therefore enthusiastically accepted by WCCE and ECCE. The event was realised by the Organising Committee comprising professors from the leading Turkish universities and TCCE representatives. The International Advisory Board consisting of the representatives of the three organising partners discussed and set the organisational principles. It was unanimously agreed by both the Board and the Committee to set the scientific standard of the conference through well qualified, internationally renowned keynote speakers. Each of the six half-day sessions would be initiated by two keynote presentations relevant to the subject area of the session. The objective of the conference is to contribute to the mitigation of life and material losses in earthquake and tsunami through improved civil engineering practice. The conference scope is confined to civil engineering related disaster mitigation activities. Consequently, the keynote papers included in the present vo
