Performance-based seismic design of structures: a direct displacement-based approach

✍ Scribed by Qiang Xue; Cheng-Chung Chen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 703 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-0296
• DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2003.08.003

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, a performance-based seismic design procedure, which is directly associated with pre-quantified performance criteria, is presented by employing a displacement-based approach. A lower bound of yielding displacement of the structure to satisfy these performance criteria is proposed. The approach is general in employing either equivalent elastic or inelastic response spectrum. Non-linear time history analysis verified that this approach is applicable to control the target displacement to the performance acceptable limit. Its flexibility in considering special effect such as near-fault or strong motion duration and simplicity in a proposed multiple performance objectives design are demonstrated.