Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering in Europe

Chapter 1. Analysis in seismic provisions for buildings - past, present and future (Peter Fajfar).- Chapter 2. Implications of site specific response analysis (Atilla Ansal).- Chapter 3. A redefinition of seismic input for design and assessment (Gian Michele Calvi).- Chapter 4. From force- to displacement-based seismic design of concrete structures and beyond (Michael N. Fardis).- Chapter 5. Seismic assessment of existing irregular masonry buildings by nonlinear static and dynamic analyses (Sergio Lagomarsino).- Chapter 6. Capturing geographically-varying uncertainty in earthquake ground motion models or what we think we know may change (John Douglas).- Chapter 7. Implementation of near-fault forward directivity effects in seismic design codes (Sinan Akkar).- Chapter 8. 3D physics-based numerical simulations: Advantages and current limitations of a new frontier to earthquake ground motion prediction. The Istanbul case study (Roberto Paolucci).- Chapter 9. Issues with the use of spatially variable seismic ground motions in engineering applications (Aspasia Zerva).- Chapter 10. Bridging the gap between seismology and engineering: towards real-time damage assessment (Stefano Parolai).-  Chapter 11. Earthquake geotechnics in offshore engineering (Amir M. Kaynia).- Chapter 12. The dynamics of rocking isolation (Nicos Makris).- Chapter 13. Multistory Building Frames and Shear Walls Founded on "Rocking" Spread Footings (G. Gazetas).- Chapter 14. Seismic design of foundations in difficult soil conditions: examples of solutions (Alain Pecker) .- Chapter 15. Structural health monitoring for seismic protection of structure and infrastructure systems (Oreste S. Bursi).- Chapter 16. Large scale testing facilities - use of high gravity centrifuge tests to investigate soil liquefaction phenomena (Gopal S.P. Madabhushi).- Chapter 17. Seismic analysis and design of composite steel/concrete building structures involving concrete-filled steel tubular columns (Konstantinos A.

Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis is a Professor in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He took his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the same University and received his Ph.D. from Ecole Centrale de Paris. He has more than 35 years of intensive academic, research and professional experience in earthquake and geotechnical engineering. Currently Vice President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE), he has been Chairman and now Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Associated Problems" (TC203) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), and past President of the Greek Society of Earthquake Engineering and the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology in Greece (ITSAK). He served as Head of the Civil Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and he currently acts as the Director of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics, Foundations and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University (http://sdgee.civil.auth.gr/). Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis has vast experience in European research activities, acting as the coordinator of large European projects like EUROSEISTEST (http://euroseis.civil.auth.gr) and SYNER-G (www.syner-g.eu), and as participant in more than 30 European and national research projects. His main research and professional interests are in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, seismic design of foundations and infrastructures, soil dynamics, site effects and microzonation, vulnerability and risk assessment of civil engineering structures, infrastructures and monuments and lifeline earthquake engineering. He is  an author of more than 550 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and proceedings, and an author of several book chapters, an editor of three books published