TY  - JOUR
A1  - Işık, Ercan
A1  - Büyüksaraç, Aydın
A1  - Levent Ekinci, Yunus
A1  - Aydın, Mehmet Cihan
A1  - Harirchian, Ehsan
T1  - The Effect of Site-Specific Design Spectrum on Earthquake-Building Parameters: A Case Study from the Marmara Region (NW Turkey)
JF  - Applied Sciences
N2  - The Marmara Region (NW Turkey) has experienced significant earthquakes (M > 7.0) to date. A destructive earthquake is also expected in the region. To determine the effect of the specific design spectrum, eleven provinces located in the region were chosen according to the Turkey Earthquake Building Code updated in 2019. Additionally, the differences between the previous and updated regulations of the country were investigated. Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) and Peak Ground Velocity (PGV) were obtained for each province by using earthquake ground motion levels with 2%, 10%, 50%, and 68% probability of exceedance in 50-year periods. The PGA values in the region range from 0.16 to 0.7 g for earthquakes with a return period of 475 years. For each province, a sample of a reinforced-concrete building having two different numbers of stories with the same ground and structural characteristics was chosen. Static adaptive pushover analyses were performed for the sample reinforced-concrete building using each province’s design spectrum. The variations in the earthquake and structural parameters were investigated according to different geographical locations. It was determined that the site-specific design spectrum significantly influences target displacements for performance-based assessments of buildings due to seismicity characteristics of the studied geographic location.
KW  - Erdbeben
KW  - earthquake
KW  - site-specific spectrum
KW  - Marmara Region
KW  - seismic hazard analysis
KW  - adaptive pushover
KW  - OA-Publikationsfonds2020
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201022-42758
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/20/7247
VL  - 2020
IS  - Volume 10, issue 20, article 7247
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fathi, Sadegh
A1  - Sajadzadeh, Hassan
A1  - Mohammadi Sheshkal, Faezeh
A1  - Aram, Farshid
A1  - Pinter, Gergo
A1  - Felde, Imre
A1  - Mosavi, Amir
T1  - The Role of Urban Morphology Design on Enhancing Physical Activity and Public Health
JF  - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
N2  - Along with environmental pollution, urban planning has been connected to public health. The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in reducing mental disorders and overall health. The structure and shape of the city are considered as one of the factors influencing happiness and health in urban communities and the type of the daily activities of citizens. The aim of this study was to promote physical activity in the main structure of the city via urban design in a way that the main form and morphology of the city can encourage citizens to move around and have physical activity within the city. Functional, physical, cultural-social, and perceptual-visual features are regarded as the most important and effective criteria in increasing physical activities in urban spaces, based on literature review. The environmental quality of urban spaces and their role in the physical activities of citizens in urban spaces were assessed by using the questionnaire tool and analytical network process (ANP) of structural equation modeling. Further, the space syntax method was utilized to evaluate the role of the spatial integration of urban spaces on improving physical activities. Based on the results, consideration of functional diversity, spatial flexibility and integration, security, and the aesthetic and visual quality of urban spaces plays an important role in improving the physical health of citizens in urban spaces. Further, more physical activities, including motivation for walking and the sense of public health and happiness, were observed in the streets having higher linkage and space syntax indexes with their surrounding texture.
KW  - Morphologie
KW  - Gesundheitswesen
KW  - Intelligente Stadt
KW  - Nachhaltigkeit
KW  - Gesundheitsinformationssystem
KW  - urban morphology
KW  - public health
KW  - physical activities
KW  - health
KW  - public space
KW  - urban health
KW  - smart cities
KW  - sustainability
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200402-41225
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2359
VL  - 2020
IS  - Volume 17, Issue 7, 2359
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -