The aim of this special issue is to gather information about the risk of another Marmara earthquake from the latest geophysical, geological, geotechnical, computational, and building science research results to discuss ways of mitigating disaster in advance.
An overview of the geotechnical aspects of the building damage due to the 2011 Tohoku Pacific Earthquake is presented, based on field reconnaissance made after the earthquake.
The paper will also present the geotechnical considerations for high rise buildings and buildings with unique architecture in difficult ground conditions in Astana (New Capital) and West Kazakhstan (the coast of Caspian Sea).
In this paper, an estimation method is suggested in order to determine the thermal and hydraulic properties of the ground for design the heat exchanger of energy pile system base on geotechnical investigation for the design the building's foundations.
In particular, to reliably predict spatial geotechnical information, a procedural methodology for building the GTIS within a GIS framework was developed and applied to the Seoul area in Korea.
Then, we illustrate the applications of GPR to civil engineering fields, from the construction and inspection of transportation infrastructures and hydraulic works, to geotechnical surveys, environmental monitoring, as well as building and bridge structural assessments.
In order to set integrated procedures involving geotechnical and structural aspects finalized to buildings diagnostics, uncertainty aspects are discussed concerning three-axis accelerometers and inclinometers for a distributed sensor network.
OpenSees is an object-oriented framework for building models of structural and geotechnical systems to perform nonlinear analysis.
The process is split into three parts: a geotechnical analysis; a structural analysis of the building; and the creation of the "damage factor".
Specifications are usually printed and kept in a binder, and they list descriptions of methods and materials used in the project, as well as testing methods, quality control information, geotechnical data, and other information useful in building the project.
