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    Examination of code performance limits for shear walls
    (2012) Kazaz, İ.; Gülkan, Polat; Yakut, A.
    Recently proposed changes to modeling and acceptance criteria in seismic regulations for both flexure and shear dominated reinforced concrete structural walls suggest that a comprehensive examination is required for improved limit state definitions and their corresponding values. This study utilizes a well calibrated modeling tool to investigate the deformation measures defined in terms of plastic rotations and local concrete and steel strains at the extreme fiber of rectangular structural walls. We compare requirements in ASCE/SEI 41, Eurocode 8 and the Turkish Seismic Code. This way, a critical evaluation of the requirements embedded in these documents becomes possible. It is concluded that the performance limits must be refined by introducing additional parameters. Significant recommendations are provided for Eurocode 8 and the Turkish Seismic Code.
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    Seismic behavior of a four-legged masonry minaret
    (2012) Kazaz, İ.; Akansel, V.; Gülkan, Polat; Kazaz, E.
    The four-legged Minaret of Sheikh Mutahhar Mosque has been constructed in the early 16th century during the Aq Qoyunlu Period in Diyarbakır, Turkey, which is located in the second most hazardous zone of the Turkish Seismic Zones Map. This is a special structure, because the minaret body has been placed on four cylindrical stone columns. Therefore, this minaret is seemingly vulnerable though it has survived for five centuries. We use the square cross sectioned minaret as a possible large-scale seismograph to examine the possible limits of ground motion that must have affected it without causing its collapse. In order to investigate the likely seismic performance and strength of the four-legged minaret, a model, which is very close to real structure, was generated with explicit dynamic code LS-DYNA. The developed model takes into account the material nonlinearities and the interface friction and contact behavior between the masonry units. It was displayed that the amplitude of the ground motion in Diyarbakır could not be 0.15g.