Aleksandar Zlateski

• Master of Engineering
• Research Assistant at Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

The vulnerability of the built environment to seismic events has been increasingly evident, particularly in the Balkan region, where recent earthquakes have caused significant non-structural damage to both old and new buildings, often leading to restricted use. In North Macedonia, seismic design standards were introduced only after the catastrophic...

Urban historic centers, consisting mostly of vulnerable unreinforced stone and brick masonry structures constructed without seismic design considerations, experience significant earthquake damage. This paper uses a vulnerability index method to obtain and discuss a pre-earthquake vulnerability assessment of a representative part of Skopje's Old Baz...

The structure of the Clock Tower in Skopje is massive, constructed of stone masonry with a height of about 29 meters and brick masonry in the upper octagonal part. It was damaged during the Skopje Earthquake in 1963. A rehabilitation of the structure was carried out in 1964, but without a seismic strengthening. Recently, field investigations were c...

The impact of present building code requirements for seismic design of new buildings can readily be acknowledged, however applying regulation to existing buildings is an area less well defined. Presently, there is a diverse list of existing code references which could be interpreted to require seismic upgrades of existing structures. Unfortunately,...

The historic building of “Sokolski dom” in Kumanovo belongs to the plain masonry type of buildings. Built in the thirties of the last century for the needs of the “Sokolski Society”, this building was once the main impetus for enrichment of cultural, entertainment and sports life, enabling the proper development of many generations. Due to its sign...

In recent years, the improvement of disaster and emergency management through building a harmonized and efficient system for risk assessment of structures in the cross-border region (CBR) has become increasingly popular. Harmonization of the risk exposure model for cross border regions is first and most important step for assessment of risk in the...

Within the frame of the EU FP6 PROHITECH project a methodology for seismic retrofitting of monuments using CFRP elements has been developed and experimentally verified by shaking table tests on a model of the Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Skopje. The resulted efficiency of the applied methodology was crucial and starting point in making the decision abou...

At 03:56 local time on November 26, 2019, an earthquake with a Mw = 6.4 struck western part of Albania. The duration of the tremor lasted less than 50 s and was felt largely also in Albania's capital Tirana, and in places as far away more than 300 km northeast of the epicenter. It caused damage to many public and residential buildings in districts...

The unexpected misbehavior of buildings during the recent frequent earthquakes in Mediterranean region resulted in significant loss of human lives, injuries and economic losses due to the poor capacity of their structural systems and built-in materials to sustain seismic load. Among the lessons learned from recent earthquake in southeastern Europe...

The complexity of historic centres implies that risk assessment in those areas should be based on joint analyses of the characteristics of the built environment and the population's features, exposure and interaction with the surrounding environment. Such a holistic approach is urgently needed to evaluate the impact of mitigation strategies, especi...

A development of the “initial stiffness alter ratio” (ISAR) of conventional high-rise buildings is presented. The proposed methodology has been developed to provide accurate structural health estimation in case of the highest limitation in operational modal analysis - identification of an input set of one modal eigenpair, consisting of one modal fr...

Within the framework of the new traffic solutions for the central city area in Skopje, and in order to provide greater flow of vehicles on a new traffic solution for the Dame Gruev Street has been prepared. In providing conditions for realization of this traffic solution there is a traffic bottleneck at the crossing point on the street at the offic...

Often, due to some architectural requisitions, a structural engineer has to take special constructive measures while designing a construction. A typical example is, because of a previously determined large span between columns, to use higher concrete class in the design of columns, while following the ULS and SLS criteria's, defined with the design...