Polat Gülkan

Polat Gülkan is currently the Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. Gülkan, being an earthquake Structural Engineer, has been a Visiting Scholar at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Other professional appointments have included Basler and Hofmann of Zürich, Switzerland, and visiting professorship at Purdue University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) during 1996–2004, and was appointed in 2004 as an Executive Vice President for a four-year term. He was on the Board of Directors of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) during 2005–2008. Being a registered professional Civil Engineer in California, he has been involved through many projects and consultancies with the UN, World Bank, EU Commission, NATO, OECD, IAEA, as well as commercial firms. His professional work has dealt also with earthquake hazard, spatial planning, urban hazard assessment, natural disaster insurance, structural intervention principles for buildings, and nuclear safety. He is a graduate of METU (1966) and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1971). Gülkan is currently an Editor for Earthquake Spectra, and is serving on the Editorial Boards of Engineering Structures, TÜBITAK Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences, and Advances in Civil Engineering. He has article reviews for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Journal of Seismology, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics, and Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering. Professor Gülkan has been awarded the NATO Science Prize in 2004 and the Science Award of the Scientific and Technological Research Authority (TÜBITAK) in 2007, the highest medal of professional recognition of his country.

Biography Updated on 20 March 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Enhancement of the National Strong-Motion Network in Turkey
    Seismological Research Letters, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 429–438, 2007
  2. Seismic response assessment of a stiff structure
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 737–759, 2006
  3. Numerical simulation of dynamic shear wall tests: A benchmark study
    Computers & Structures, vol. 84, no. 8-9, pp. 549–562, 2006
  4. Reply to: Discussion of “Re-examination of damage distribution in Adapazari: Geotechnical considerations” [Engineering Structures 2005;27:1002–13]
    Engineering Structures, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 468–468, 2006
  5. Discussion of the paper ‘An empirical attenuation relationship for Northwestern Turkey ground motion using a random effects approach’
    Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 889–891, 2005
  6. Drift Estimates in Frame Buildings Subjected to Near-Fault Ground Motions
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 131, no. 7, p. 1014, 2005
  7. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 173, 2005
  8. Discussion of “An attenuation relationship based on Turkish strong motion data and iso-acceleration map of Turkey” by Ulusay et al., Eng. Geol., 74: 265–291 (2004)
    Engineering Geology, vol. 79, no. 3-4, pp. 288–290, 2005
  9. Re-examination of damage distribution in Adapazari: Structural considerations
    Engineering Structures, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 990–1001, 2005
  10. Re-examination of damage distribution in Adapazari: Geotechnical considerations
    Engineering Structures, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 1002–1013, 2005
  11. AN ANALYSIS OF RISK MITIGATION CONSIDERATIONS IN REGIONAL RECONSTRUCTION IN TURKEY: THE MISSING LINK
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 525–540, 2005
  12. Erratum: “Site-Dependent Spectra Derived from Ground Motion Records in Turkey” [Earthquake Spectra 20, 1111–1138 (2004)]
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 283, 2005
  13. Probabilistic Benefit-Cost Analysis for Earthquake Damage Mitigation: Evaluating Measures for Apartment Houses in Turkey
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 171, 2004
  14. Empirical Attenuation Equations for Vertical Ground Motion in Turkey
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 853, 2004
  15. Site-Dependent Spectra Derived from Ground Motion Records in Turkey
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 1111, 2004
  16. Journal of Seismology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 397–409, 2002
  17. A Critical Examination of Near-Field Accelerograms from the Sea of Marmara Region Earthquakes
    Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 428–447, 2002
  18. A simple replacment for the drift spectrum
    Engineering Structures, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1477–1484, 2002
  19. Performance of Buildings
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 16, no. S1, p. 237, 2000
  20. Building Code Enforcement Prospects: The Failure of Public Policy
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 16, no. S1, p. 351, 2000
  21. Stress analysis during root canal filling by vertical and lateral condensation procedures: a three-dimensional finite element model of a maxillary canine tooth
    British Dental Journal, vol. 185, no. 2, Article ID 4809733, 7 pages, 1998
  22. Beams on generalized foundations: supplementary element matrices
    Engineering Structures, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 910–920, 1997
  23. Seismic hazard analysis with randomly located sources
    Natural Hazards, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pp. 215–233, 1994
  24. Seismic Testing of Single-Story Masonry Houses: Part 1
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 116, no. 1, p. 235, 1990
  25. A probabilistic assessment of the seismic hazard in Turkey
    Tectonophysics, vol. 117, no. 3-4, pp. 295–344, 1985