Publications
Thesis/Dissertations:
- Yilmaz, T. (2015). “Risk Assessment of Highway Bridges under Multi-Hazard Effect of Flood-Induced Scour and Earthquake.” Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, PA.
- Yilmaz, T. (2008). “Seismic Response of Multi-Span Highway Bridges with Two-Column Reinforced Concrete Bents Including Foundation and Column Flexibility.” M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Journal Papers (Published):
- Yilmaz, T., Banerjee, S. (2018). “Impact Spectrum of Flood Hazard on Seismic Vulnerability of Bridges.” Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 66(4), 515-529, doi: 10.12989/sem.2018.66.4.515.
- Yilmaz, T., Banerjee, S., Johnson, P. A. (2017). “Uncertainty in risk of highway bridges assessed for integrated seismic and flood hazards.” Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, doi: 10.1080/15732479.2017.1402065.
- Yilmaz, T., Banerjee, S., Johnson, P. A. (2016) “Performance of two real-life California bridges under regional natural hazards.” Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, 21(3), doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000827, 04015063.
- Yilmaz, T., and Caner A. (2012). “Target damage level assessment for seismic performance evaluation of two-column reinforced concrete bridge bents.” Journal of Bridge Structures, IOS Press, 8(3-4), 135-146.
- Caner, A., Yanmaz, A. M., Yakut, A., Avsar, O., Yilmaz, T. (2008). “Service life assessment of existing highway bridges with no planned regular inspections.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, March/April, 108-114.
Conference Proceedings:
- Yılmaz, T. and Er Sertoğlu, M. (2022). “Seismic Resilience Assessment of a Typical Highway Bridge with Scoured Foundations”. Istanbul Bridge Conference 2022, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Aygın, O.C. and Yılmaz, T. (2021). “Confidence Intervals for Seismic Risk of Highway Bridges”. 6th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Kocaeli, Turkey.
- Aygın, O.C. and Yılmaz, T. (2020). “Comparison of Two Approaches for Developing Analytical Seismic Fragility Curves of Highway Bridges”. 9th Turkish Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Kanpara Cıvaş, Z., Aygın, O.C. and Yılmaz, T. (2020). “A Sensitivity Study for Seismic Response Assessment of Highway Bridges with Uncertain Modeling, Scour and Deterioration Parameters”. 9th Turkish Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Yilmaz, T., and Aygın, O.C. (2019). “Time-dependent seismic risk of regular highway bridges under the effect of structural deterioration”. SECED 2019 Conference, Greenwich, London, UK.
- Yılmaz, T., and Aygın, O.C. (2019). “Çoklu bozulma etkileri altında yaşlanan karayolu köprülerinin sismik kırılganlık ve riskinin değerlendirilmesi”. (in Turkish) 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
- Yilmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2018). “Variation in seismic risk of highway bridges in flood-prone regions”. 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Yılmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2016). “Risk and reliability assessment of highway bridges in seismically-active flood-prone regions.” Istanbul Bridge Conference 2016, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Yilmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2013). “Seismic risk of highway bridges in flood-prone regions.” 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, New York.
- Yılmaz, T., and Caner, A. (2011). “An improved seismic design approach for two-column reinforced concrete bents over flexible foundations with predefined damage levels.” 1st Turkish Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Conference, Ankara, Turkey.
- Yılmaz, T., and Caner, A. (2011). “Esnek temeller üzerindeki iki kolonlu betonarme köprü ayaklarının sismik tasarımı için hedef hasar seviyelerinin tahmininde deplasman-bazlı bir yaklaşım.” (in Turkish) 2. Köprü ve Viyadükler Sempozyumu, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Conference (refereed by abstract):
- Yılmaz, T., Aygın, O.C., Kanpara Cıvaş, Z. (2022). “Lifetime Risk Assessment of Highway Bridges subject to Earthquake and Flood Hazards”. ASCE Lifelines Conference 2021 2022, Los Angeles, CA.
- Yılmaz, T., and Aygın, O.C. (2019). “Time-dependent seismic risk assessment of highway bridges under combined pier and bearing deterioration effects”. 2nd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure, Chania, Greece.
- Yilmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2017). “Variation of Multi-Hazard Risk of Highway Bridges due to Parameter Uncertainties.” 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes Island, Greece.
- Yilmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2015). “Risk and reliability assessment of highway bridges in seismically-active flood-prone regions.” ASCE Structures Congress, Portland, OR.
- Yilmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2013). “Seismic risk of a highway bridge in flood-prone region.” ASCE Structures Congress, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Yilmaz, T., and Banerjee, S. (2012). “Performance assessment of a highway bridge under multihazard effect of earthquake and flood-induced scour.” 2012 Joint Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute and the 11th ASCE Joint Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.