Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the U.S.

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Building codes in the United States contain prescriptive requirements for seismic design as well as an option for use of alternative provisions. Increasingly these alternative provisions are being applied for the performance-based seismic design of tall buildings. Application of performance-based procedures requires: An understanding of the relation between performance and nonlinear response; selection and manipulation of ground motions appropriate to the seismic hazard; selection of appropriate nonlinear models and analysis procedures; interpretation of results to determine design quantities based on nonlinear dynamic analysis procedures; appropriate structural details; and peer review by independent qualified experts to help assure the building official that the proposed materials and system are acceptable. Both practice- and research-oriented aspects of performance-based seismic design of tall buildings are presented.

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