**Meet the editor**

Dr Halil Sezen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environment and Geodetic Engineering at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He got his B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Cornell University, New York; and University of California, Berkeley, respectively. He conducts computational and

experimental research on the behavior of structures and their components under extreme loading conditions including seismic loads. Specifically, he developed models to predict the response of reinforced concrete building columns with design details not meeting the requirements of modern seismic design codes. He investigated seismic behavior of various engineering structures including historical and monumental structures, and industrial facilities. His recent research also includes e field testing and computational simulation of progressive collapse of buildings.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Seismic Risk, Hazard, Wave Simulation and Geotechnical Aspects 1** 

**the Economic Issues of Earthquakes 3** 

**Earthquake Engineering: Understanding** 

**in Heterogeneous Transversely Isotropic Medium with Irregular Free Surface 105** 

**Forecast for Southern California 131** 

**Historical and Monumental Structures 181** 

**the Multidimensionality of the Phenomena 65** 

Chapter 2 **Assessment of Seismic Hazard of Territory 25** 

Chapter 1 **Seismic Risk of Structures and** 

Afshin Kalantari

V. B. Zaalishvili

Silvia Garcia

Chapter 5 **Full-Wave Ground Motion** 

Chapter 7 **Seismic Performance of** 

En-Jui Lee and Po Chen

**Section 2 Seismic Performance and Simulation of Behavior of Structures 179** 

Halil Sezen and Adem Dogangun

Chapter 6 **Soil-Structure Interaction 145**  Alexander Tyapin

Chapter 3 **A Cognitive Look at Geotechnical** 

Chapter 4 **Three-Dimensional Wavefield Simulation** 

Haiqiang Lan and Zhongjie Zhang
