Mehmet Celebi
Biography
Publications
Çelebi, M., Toksöz, N. and Büyüköztürk, O., 2014, Rocking behavior of an instrumented unique building on the MIT campus identified from ambient shaking data,Earthquake Spectra, v30,no.2, pp.705-720, may 2014 [Link]
Çelebi, M., Okawa, I., and Kashima, T., S. Koyama, and M. Iiba, 2014, Response of a tall building far from the epicenter of the March 11, 2011 M=9.0 Great East Japan earthquake and its aftershocks, The Wiley Journal of The Structural Design of Tall Buildings and Special Buildings Struct. Design Tall Spec. Build. (first published online in 2012 wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/tal). DOI:10.1002/tal.1047. Struct. Design Tall Spec. Build. 23, 427–441 (2014) [Download File]
Çelebi , M., Huang, M., Shakal, A., Hooper, J., and Klemencic, R., 2013, Ambient response of a unique performance-based design tall building with dynamic response modification features, Wiley Online Library Journal of The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, pp. 816-829, DOI: 10.1002/tal.1093, 14pages [Link]
Çelebi, M., Sereci, M., Boroschek, R., Carreno, R. and Bonelli, P., 2013, Identifiying the Dynamic Characteristics of a Dual core-wall and frame Building in Chile using aftershocks of the 27 February 2010 (Mw=8.8) Maule (Chile) Earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, Volume 29, No. 4, pages 1233–1254, November 2013 [Link]
Çelebi, M., 2013, Seismic monitoring of structures and new developments, Chapter 2 in Earthquakes and Health Monitoring of Civil Structures (ed. M. Garevski), Springer Environmental Science and Engineering, pp.37-84
Çelebi, M., Okawa, I., and Kashima, T., 2012, March 11, 2011 M=9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and Aftershocks: The story of a 9-story building retrofitted, damaged during, and repaired after the mainshock, paper no. 0292, PROC. 15WCEE (15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-28 September 2012),
Bodin, P., Vidale, J., Walsh, T., Çakir, R., and Çelebi, M., 2012, Transient and long-term changes in seismic response of the Natural Resources Building, Olympia, Washington, due to earthquake shaking, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 16, pp. 607-622. [Link]
Çelebi, M., 2012, Golden Gate Bridge Response –A Study with Low-Amplitude Data from Three Earthquakes, Earthquake Spectra, v. 28, no. 2, pp. 47-510, May 2012 [Download File]
Çelebi, M., 2011, Seismic monitoring of structures and new developments, Invited Keynote Lecture Paper, PROC. EVACES 2011 (Experimental Vibration Analyses of Civil Engineering Structures, 3-5 October, Varenna, Italy),
Çelebi, M., Bazzurro, P., Chiaraluce, L., Clemente, P., Decanini, L., De Sortis, A., Ellsworth, W., Gorin, A., Kalkan, E., Marcucci, S., Milana, G., Mollaioli, F., Olivieri , M., Paolucci, R., Rinaldis, D., Rovelli, A., Sabetta, F., and Stephens, C., 2010, Recorded Motions of the Mw 6.3 April 6, 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake and Implications for Building Structural Damage, Earthquake Spectra, v.36, no.3, pp.651-684, August 2010. [Link]
Çelebi,M., 2008, Real-Time Monitoring of Drift for occupancy Resumption, PROC. 14WCEE (CD-ROM), Beijing, China, Oct.13-17, 2008. [Download File]
Compiled and Edited by Lee, William H. K.; Celebi, Mehmet; Todorovska, Maria I.; Diggles, Michael F., 2007. Rotational Seismology and Engineering Applications - Online Proceedings for the First International Workshop: Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.-September 18 to 19, 2007. Geological Survey (U.S.) Open-File Report 2007-1144, Available Online Only [Link]
Çelebi, M., 2006 Recorded Earthquake Responses from the Integrated Seismic Monitoring Network of the Atwood Building, Anchorage, (AK), Earthquake Spectra, v.22, no.4, pp 847-864, November 2006[Download File]
Çelebi, M., 2006, Real-time seismic monitoring of the new Cape Girardeau (MO) Bridge and preliminary analyses of recorded data: An Overview, Earthquake Spectra [COVER STORY], 22, 3, August 2006, pp.609-630. [Download File]
Celebi, Mehmet; Page, Robert A., 2005. Monitoring earthquake shaking in federal buildings. Fact Sheet 2005-3052, 1 sheet ([2] p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 28 x 18 cm. [Link]
Rodgers, Janise E.; Celebi, Mehmet, 2005. A proposed method for the detection of steel moment connection fractures using high-frequency, transient accelerations. Open-File Report 2005-1375, 88 p.: ill.[Link]
Celebi, Mehmet; McCarthy, Jill; Biswas, Niren; Wald, Lisa; Page, Robert; Steidl, Jamison, 2004. Seismic monitoring of the Atwood building in Anchorage, Alaska. Fact Sheet 2004-3103, 1 sheet ([2] p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 28 x 18 cm. [Link]
Rodgers, Janise E.; Sanli, Ahmet K.; Celebi, Mehmet, 2004. Seismic response analysis of a 13-story steel moment-framed building in Alhambra, California. Open-File Report 2004-1338, 143 p. [Link]
Çelebi, M., Sanli, A., Sinclair, M., Gallant, S., and Radulescu, D., 2004, Real-Time Seismic Monitoring Needs of a Building Owner and the solution – A Cooperative Effort, Journal of EERI, Earthquake Spectra, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 333-346, may 2004.. [COVER STORY-EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA]. [Link]
Çelebi, M., 2004, Structural Monitoring Arrays – Past, Present and Future, PROC. NATO SFP Workshop on Future Directions on Strong Motion and Engineering Seismology, Kusadasi, Izmir, Turkey, May 17-21, 2004. in Future Directions in Strong Motion Instrumentation (eds. P. Gulkan, and J. Anderson), NATO Science Series: IV. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kluwer Academic Publishers, v. 58, pp. 157-179, [Download File]
Celebi, Mehmet; Page, Robert A.; Safak, Erdal; edited by Hendley, James W., II; Stauffer, Peter H., 2003. Monitoring earthquake shaking in buildings to reduce loss of life and property. Fact Sheet 068-03, 4 p. [Link]
Çelebi, M., and Sanli, A., 2002, “GPS in Pioneering Dynamic Monitoring of Long-Period Structures”, (Director’s Approval: 2/20/01 – M01-0333), Earthquake Spectra, Journal of EERI,. Volume 18, No. 1, pages 47–61, February 2002 . [COVER STORY-EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA] [Link]
Celebi, M.; Akkar, S.; Gulerce, U.; Sanli, A.; Bundock, H.; Salkin, A., 2001. Main shock and aftershock records of the 1999 Izmit and Duzce, Turkey earthquakes. Open-File Report 2001-163, One CD-ROM.[Link]
Celebi, Mehmet, 2000. Seismic instrumentation of buildings. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2000-157, 37 p., :ill. (some col.) ;28 cm. [Link]
Celebi, Mehmet; Nishenko, S. P.; Astill, Clifford; Chung, R. M. , 1998. Seismic instrumentation of federal buildings; a proposal document for consideration by federal agencies. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 98-117, 38 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
Celebi, Mehmet; Page, Robert A.; Seekins, Linda, 1995. Building Safer Structures. U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet 167-95, 1 sheet ([2] p.) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. col. ill. ; [Link]
Celebi, Mehmet; Spudich, Paul A.; Page, Robert A.; Stauffer, Peter H., 1995. Saving lives through better design standards. Fact Sheet 173-95, 1 sheet ([2] p.) : col. ill., col. map ; 28 cm. [Link]
Akamatsu, Junpei; Fujita, Masayuki; Kameda, Hiroyuki; Celebi, Mehmet; Borcherdt, R. D., 1992. Assessment of the effects of local geology using long-period microtremors and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake motions. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 92-214, iv, 108 p. ill. ;28 cm.
Celebi, Mehmet; Lysmer, John; Luco, J. E., 1992. Recommendations for a soil-structure interaction experiment (report based on a workshop held at San Francisco, California on February 7, 1992). U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 92-295, iii, 11 p. ill. ;28 cm.
Marshall, R. D.; Phan, L. T.; Celebi, Mehmet, 1990. Measurement of structural response characteristics of full-scale buildings; selection of structures. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 90-677, vi, 16 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
Celebi, Mehmet; Safak, Erdal; Brady, A. G.; Maley, R. P.; Sotoudeh, Vahid., 1987. Integrated instrumentation plan for assessing the seismic response of structures; a review of the current USGS program. U.S. Geological Survey, Circular 947, iv, 38 p. :ill. ;26 cm. [Link]
Celebi, Mehmet; Brady, G.; Krawinkler, H., 1987. Preliminary evaluation of structures; Whittier Narrows earthquake of October 1, 1987. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 87-621, i, 31 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
compiled by Celebi, Mehmet , 1987. Processed Chile earthquake records of 3 March 1985 and aftershocks. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 87-195, 254 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
edited by Celebi, Mehmet, 1986. Seismic site-response experiments following the March 3, 1985 central Chile earthquake (topographical and geological effects). U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 86-90, 206 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
Science and Products
55-Story Tall Building – Before and After Earthquake Retrofit
Release Date: MARCH 26, 2018
A building in Japan was analyzed before and after a seismic retrofit to make it more resilient to shaking.
The behavior of the Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in San Francisco, California inferred from earthquake and ambient shaking
The newly constructed tallest building designed in conformance with performance-based design procedure in San Francisco, California is a 61-story building equipped with an accelerometric array that recorded the January 4, 2018 M4.4 Berkeley earthquake. The building is designed with concrete core shear walls and perimeter gravity steel columns. The...
Celebi, Mehmet; Haddadi, H.; Huang, Moh; Valley, Michael; Hooper, John; Klemencic, Ron
U.S. Geological Survey National Strong-Motion Project strategic plan, 2017–22
The mission of the National Strong-Motion Project is to provide measurements of how the ground and built environment behave during earthquake shaking to the earthquake engineering community, the scientific community, emergency managers, public agencies, industry, media, and other users for the following purposes: Improving engineering evaluations...
Aagaard, Brad T.; Celebi, Mehmet; Gee, Lind; Graves, Robert; Jaiswal, Kishor; Kalkan, Erol; Knudsen, Keith L.; Luco, Nicolas; Smith, James; Steidl, Jamison; Stephens, Christopher D. Study of responses of 64-story Rincon Building to Napa, Fremont, Piedmont, San Ramon earthquakes and ambient motions
We analyze the recorded responses of a 64-story, instrumented, concrete core shear wall building in San Francisco, California, equipped with tuned sloshing liquid dampers (TSDs) and buckling restraining braces (BRBs). Previously, only ambient data from the 72-channel array in the building were studied (Çelebi et al. 2013). Recently, the 24 August...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Hooper, John; Klemencic, Ron An investigation of soil-structure interaction effects observed at the MIT Green Building
The soil-foundation impedance function of the MIT Green Building is identified from its response signals recorded during an earthquake. Estimation of foundation impedance functions from seismic response signals is a challenging task, because: (1) the foundation input motions (FIMs) are not directly measurable, (2) the as-built properties of the...
Taciroglu, Ertugrul; Çelebi, Mehmet; Ghahari, S. Farid; Abazarsa, Fariba Responses of a 58-story RC dual core shear wall and outrigger frame building inferred from two earthquakes
Responses of a dual core shear-wall and outrigger-framed 58-story building recorded during the Mw6.0 Napa earthquake of 24 August 2014 and the Mw3.8 Berkeley earthquake of 20 October 2011 are used to identify its dynamic characteristics and behavior. Fundamental frequencies are 0.28 Hz (NS), 0.25 Hz (EW), and 0.43 Hz (torsional). Rigid body...
Çelebi, Mehmet Responses of a tall building in Los Angeles, California as inferred from local and distant earthquakes
Increasing inventory of tall buildings in the United States and elsewhere may be subjected to motions generated by near and far seismic sources that cause long-period effects. Multiple sets of records that exhibited such effects were retrieved from tall buildings in Tokyo and Osaka ~ 350 km and 770 km from the epicenter of the 2011 Tohoku...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Hasan Ulusoy; Nori Nakata Significance of beating observed in earthquake responses of buildings
The beating phenomenon observed in the recorded responses of a tall building in Japan and another in the U.S. are examined in this paper. Beating is a periodic vibrational behavior caused by distinctive coupling between translational and torsional modes that typically have close frequencies. Beating is prominent in the prolonged resonant responses...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Ghahari, S. F.; Taciroglu, E. Blind identification of the Millikan Library from earthquake data considering soil–structure interaction
The Robert A. Millikan Library is a reinforced concrete building with a basement level and nine stories above the ground. Located on the campus of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena California, it is among the most densely instrumented buildings in the U.S. From the early dates of its construction, it has been the subject of...
Ghahari, S. F.; Abazarsa, F.; Avci, O.; Çelebi, Mehmet; Taciroglu, E. Unusual downhole and surface free-field records near the Carquinez Strait bridges during the 24 August 2014 Mw6.0 South Napa, California earthquake
This paper reports the results of Part A of a study of the recorded strong-motion accelerations at the well-instrumented network of the two side-by-side parallel bridges over the Carquinez Strait during the 24 August 2014 (Mw6.0 ) South Napa, Calif. earthquake that occurred at 03:20:44 PDT with epicentral coordinates 38.22N, 122.31W. (http://...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Ghahari, S. Farid; Taciroglu, Ertugrul Drift issues of tall buildings during the March 11, 2011 M9.0 Tohoku earthquake, Japan - Implications
One of the most significant effects of the M9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011 is the now well-known long duration (>10 minutes) shaking of buildings in Japan – particularly those in Tokyo (~350-375 km from the epicenter) and in places as far as Osaka (~770 km from the epicenter). Although none collapsed, the strong...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Okawa, Izuru Rocking behavior of an instrumented unique building on the MIT campus identified from ambient shaking data
A state-of-the-art seismic monitoring system comprising 36 accelerometers and a data-logger with real-time capability was recently installed at Building 54 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Cambridge, MA, campus. The system is designed to record translational, torsional, and rocking motions, and to facilitate the computation of...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Toksöz, Nafi; Büyüköztürk, Oral Response of a tall building far from the epicenter of the 11 March 2011 M 9.0 Great East Japan earthquake and aftershocks
The 11 March 2011 M 9.0 Great East Japan earthquake generated significant long-duration shaking that propagated hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter and affected urban areas throughout much of Honshu. Recorded responses of a tall building at 770 km from the epicenter of the mainshock and other related or unrelated events show how structures...
Çelebi, Mehmet; Okawa, Izuru; Kashima, Toshidate; Koyama, Shin; Iiba, Masanori