German property, Ankara, Turkey

• Evaluating the resistance to earthquakes of buildings on Foreign Office property in consideration of the current Eurocodes and Turkish standards

• All buildings are brickwork structures, have 2-3 storeys and a cellar. The majority of the buildings were built in the 1930s with a small proportion of them built in the 1980s. The roof timbering features a truss frame design.

• Carrying out multimodal response spectrum analysis 
• Verifying the structural safety of the brick walls in accordance with EC5 and Germany's own national standards
• Intensive comparison research between the Turkish earthquake standards and  EC8, part 1 and 3

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