SERVICES 2024“ U BRAŠOVU
Prof. Dr. Ercan Işık has been invited to take part in the international scientific conference titled “19th International Scientific Conference CIBv – Civil Engineering and Building Services 2024” held in Braşov on 07.11.2024 as an invited speaker. The conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Transylvania University of Braşov, Shenyang Jianzhu University from China and Technical University from Moldova. In the presentation titled “Effects of the 2023 Destructive Turkey Earthquakes on RC Structures in Kahramanmaraş”, the effects of the earthquakes, which are the disaster of the century for Türkiye, on reinforced-concrete structures in Kahramanmaraş province, which is the epicentre of the earthquakes, were evaluated within the scope of civil and earthquake engineering. As part of the IM4StEM project, the reasons for structural damage and destruction in reinforced-concrete structures as a result of field observations in the earthquake region between 23 April 2024 – 29 April 2024 and earlier were presented in detail. The data collected from the field were evaluated within the scope of structural earthquake engineering and the main reasons for damage and destruction and solution suggestions were presented in detail. In particular, irregularities and weak structural characteristics found in reinforced-concrete structures, which are the dominant urban building stock, as well as incomplete, defective or non-application of earthquake-resistant building design principles are the main reasons for damage. The damages incurred in these earthquakes reveal the necessity of health monitoring of structures and collection of dynamic data related to buildings in a database. In addition, the presentation supported the situation of insufficient transverse reinforcement spacing, especially in reinforced-concrete columns, with numerical analysis. In the presentation, information was given about the precautions that can be taken on existing structures before the earthquake.