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Conference Object Performance-Based Seismic Evaluation and Retrofitting of Historic Unreinforced Concrete Wall Buildings With Interior Steel Frames(Dolnoslaskie Wydawnictwo Edukacyjne-dwe, 2012) Gunes, Oguz; Güneş, Oğuz; Gunes, Burcu; Sozenoglu, Ismet; İnşaat MühendisliğiPerformance-based seismic evaluation of historical constructions is a challenge due to the difficulty of their structural analysis that accurately captures their nonlinear behavior. This paper focuses on the use of 3-D nonlinear finite element method for static pushover analysis of unreinforced concrete (URC) wall buildings with interior steel frames for seismic evaluation and retrofit design. Three such historical school buildings with different levels of structural complexity were modeled in detail using advanced finite element programs to obtain their linear and nonlinear behavior under monotonically increasing lateral loads. The capacity curves obtained from pushover analyses were used for performance evaluation using the Capacity Spectrum Method. Retrofit design verification for one of the buildings was performed using the same approach. The results show that despite its involved modeling process and computational expense, pushover analysis of buildings with URC/URM elements using 3-D nonlinear finite element method can become a powerful practical tool for improved seismic performance evaluation and retrofit design.Article Simulation-based microwave imaging of plain and reinforced concrete for nondestructive evaluation(2012) Güneş, Oğuz; Büyüköztürk, OralThe focus of this paper is the implementation of a backpropagation algorithm as a potential solution for the inverse source problem for microwave imaging of plain and reinforced concrete targets. The data used in imaging was obtained from numerical simulation of far-field microwave scattering by concrete targets using typical frequency bandwidth of commercially available radar systems. A finite difference-time domain (FD-TD) technique was used for the simulations. Electromagnetic (EM) properties of concrete for various moisture conditions were obtained from a previous study. A total of four simulations were performed using a Gaussian pulse wave excitation for dry and moisture saturated concrete cylinders with and without a rebar at the center. The reflected and transmitted fields were recorded along two measurement lines. Images reconstructed using the backpropagation algorithm showed the potential of the method for concrete non destructive testing (NDT) while drawing attention to its limitations mainly due to the linearizing assumptions made in the algorithm's formulation.