Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mapping Seismic Hazard for the Needs of Displacement-Based Design: The Case of Italy....Pages 3-14
Some Examples of 1D, Fully Stochastic Site Response Analyses of Soil Deposits....Pages 15-26
Evaluation of the Coherence of Strong Ground Motions Using Wavelet Analysis....Pages 27-38
Real, Scaled, Adjusted and Artificial Records: A Displacement and Cyclic Response Assessment....Pages 39-47
Theoretical Consistency of Common Record Selection Strategies in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering....Pages 49-58
Long-Period Earthquake Ground Motion: Recent Advances and Observations from the April 6 2009, M w 6.3 L’Aquila Earthquake, Italy....Pages 59-68
Uncertainty in Nonlinear SDoF Response Due to Long-Period Noise of Accelerograms....Pages 69-78
Are Current Design Spectra Sufficient for Soil-Structure Systems on Soft Soils?....Pages 79-87
Elastic Demand Spectra....Pages 89-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
A Dynamic Macro-Element for Performance-Based Design of Foundations....Pages 103-112
New Concept on Fail-Safe Design of Foundation Structure Systems Insensitive to Extreme Motions....Pages 113-124
Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the Western United States....Pages 125-135
Introduction to a Model Code for Displacement-Based Seismic Design....Pages 137-148
A Performance-Based Seismic Design Procedure for 3D R/C Buildings, Explicitly Accounting for Deformation Control....Pages 149-159
A New Seismic Design Method for Steel Structures....Pages 161-171
Significance of Modeling Deterioration in Structural Components for Predicting the Collapse Potential of Structures Under Earthquake Excitations....Pages 173-181
Enhanced Building-Specific Seismic Performance Assessment....Pages 183-191
A Damage Spectrum for Performance-Based Design....Pages 193-201
Construction of Response Spectra for Inelastic Asymmetric-Plan Structures....Pages 203-211
Multi-Mode Pushover Analysis with Generalized Force Vectors....Pages 213-223
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
A Practice-Oriented Approach for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment of Building Structures....Pages 225-233
Direct Probability-Based Seismic Design of RC Buildings....Pages 235-244
Probabilistic Models for Visual Damage....Pages 245-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Dual Flexural Plastic Hinge Design for Reducing Higher-Mode Effects on High-Rise Cantilever Wall Buildings....Pages 257-266
High Seismic Performance Systems for Steel Structures....Pages 267-275
Performance-Based Seismic Design and Experimental Evaluation of Steel MRFs with Compressed Elastomer Dampers....Pages 277-286
Performance-Based Design of Self-Centering Steel Frame Systems....Pages 287-296
Damage-Control Self-Centering Structures: From Laboratory Testing to On-site Applications....Pages 297-308
Seismic Design of Plane Steel Frames Using Modal Strength Reduction (Behaviour) Factors....Pages 309-317
Recent Advances in Seismic Isolation: Methods and Tools....Pages 319-329
Modal Analysis of Isolated Bridges with Transverse Restraints at the End Abutments....Pages 331-339
Benefit–Cost Evaluation of Seismic Risk Mitigation in Existing Non-ductile Concrete Buildings....Pages 341-348
Seismic Retrofit of Non-ductile Reinforced Concrete Frames Using Infill Walls as a Rocking Spine....Pages 349-357
Deformation Capacity of Lightly Reinforced Concrete Members – Comparative Evaluation....Pages 359-371
The Effect of Displacement History on the Performance of Concrete Columns in Flexure....Pages 373-382
Innovative Seismic Retrofitting of RC Columns Using Advanced Composites....Pages 383-393
Optimum Partial Strengthening for Improved Seismic Performance of Old Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Open Ground Story....Pages 395-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Role and Application of Testing and Computational Techniques in Seismic Engineering....Pages 407-418
Reliability Assessment in Pseudo-Dynamic and Dynamic Tests....Pages 419-429
Dynamic Interaction Between the Shaking Table and the Specimen During Seismic Tests....Pages 431-440
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Frameworks for Internet Online Hybrid Test....Pages 441-450
Large Scale Seismic Testing of Steel-Framed Structures at NCREE....Pages 451-460
Large Scale Shaking Table Tests for High-Rise Buildings: New Projects of E-Defense....Pages 461-469
Verification Through Shaking Table Testing of EC8-Based Assessment Approaches Applied to a Building Designed for Gravity-Loads....Pages 471-482
Back Matter....Pages 483-486