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Turkey: New building code for earthquake resilience
The Building Code of Turkey has been revised. Almost 120 experts contributed to the whole document and all activities were coordinated by a permanent building code committee consisting of 15 members. The new Turkish Building Earthquake Code is a comprehensive revision of the previous one dated 2007. The new code consists of 17 chapters. Most of them are revised where there are new chapters on high-rise, seismically isolated, cold-formed steel and wooden buildings within the code. The chapters of the Building Code are as follows;
- General Requirements
- Earthquake Ground Motion
- General Principles for the Design and Evaluation of Buildings Under Earthquake Effect
- Analysis Requirements for Force-Based Design of Buildings Under Earthquake Effect
- Analysis Requirements for Displacement Based Design of Buildings Under Earthquake Effect
- Design Principles of Non-Structural Building Elements Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Reinforced Concrete Building (Cast-In-Situ) Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Reinforced Concrete Building (Prefabricated) Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Structural Steel Building Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Building Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Masonry Building Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Wooden Building Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of High-Rise Building Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Seismically Isolated Building Structural Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for Evaluating and Reinforcement Design of Existing Building Systems Under Earthquake Effect
- Special Rules for the Design of Foundation Soil and Foundations Under Earthquake Effect
- Simplifıed Seısmıc Desıgn Rules For Regular Low Rıse Cast-In-Sıtu Reınforced Concrete Buıldıngs.
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