Earthquake Resistant Design, Protection, and Performance Assessment in Earthquake Engineering

Azer Arastunoglu Kasimzade is a Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Director of the Earthquake Engineering Scientific Research Center at Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction-AzUAC , Baku, Azerbaijan . He is also a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ondokuz Mayis University-OMU, Turkey. He currently serves as consultant, peer reviewer and as coordinating member of seismic code committee to the internationally partnerships projects subjected to Structural Seismic Isolation System and Modelling, Monitoring, Model Calibration, Assessment for Highly Reliable Structures. He has received his PhD and DSc degrees in Structural Mechanics from Moscow Civil Engineering University, USSR. They are related to the subject on modelling, safety and analysis problems of offshore platforms. He has worked with several international foundations around the world on earthquake resistant design problems and has authored several scientific publications, patent. He was awarded many research grants and Director of valuable projects in Japan, Turkey, and other countries. He is the recipient of the Science Promotion Award of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, NATO's Emerging Security Challenges Division, Science for Peace Award, USSR's Ministry of High Education the Science Promotion Awards, Awards from many International Conferences. His professional expertise encompasses: Modelling, Monitoring, Model Calibration, Simulation, Seismic Protection, Seismic Retrofitting, Analysis and Performance Based Assessments for earthquake resistant design of Highly Reliable Structures.

Dr. Mustafa Erdik is a Professor Emeritus of Earthquake Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He currently serves as consultant to the Pakistani Government-SUPARCO, Lebanese Government-CDR, Turk-Re and DASK and, as the board members of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation and T-RUPT Technology Inc. He has received his BSc degree from Middle East Technical University, MSc and PhD degrees from Rice University, USA. He has worked with UN organizations, WB and several international foundations around the world on earthquake engineering problems and has authored about 400 scientific publications. He is the recipient of the Science Promotion Award of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, United Nation's Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award, Rotary Foundation Science Award, NATO's Science for Peace - Summit Prize, Bruce Bolt Medal given by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA: Prof. Nicholas Ambraseys Distinguished Lecture Award given by the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and, Science Award by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. His professional expertise encompasses: earthquake hazard and risk assessment, earthquake insurance modeling, earthquake early warning and rapid response systems, earthquake resistant design of infrastructures (especially dams, tunnels and pipelines), earthquake protection of historical edifices and structural control (seismic isolation, tuned mass dampers). The research area of Professor Tribikram Kundu of the University of Arizona, USA is nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring.  He has published 9 books and 425 technical papers - 233 of those are in peer reviewed scientific journals. As of May 15, 2024 his publications have been cited 10,500 times according to Google Scholar with an h-index of 55 (Google Scholar), 46 (Scopus) and 40 (Web of Science). He received Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) in 2003, Humboldt Fellowship award in 1989 and 1996, Humbold Prize winner return visit awards in 2010, 2017 and 2024, all from Germany.  He was also received 2012NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE, 2015 Research Award for Sustained

Part I Seismic Isolation Systems (SIS).- Part II New Developments on Non Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring For Performance Assessment of Structures.- Part III Seismic Performance Assessment.