Performance-Based Seismic Design Concepts and Implementation
PREFACE
The workshop on “Seismic Design Methodologies for the Next Generation of Codes,” held in Bled, Slovenia, in 1997, initiated considerable progress worldwide to establish basic concepts and methods for performance-based earthquake engineering. An increasing acceptance of PBEE concepts by practicing engineers, together with extensive research, has led to implementation in the design and upgrade of buildings, bridges, and other man-made structures.
Encouraged by the success of the 1997 workshop, we decided to organize an international forum aimed at continuing dialog on the implementation worldwide of new ideas. The International Workshop on Performance-Based Seismic Design — Concepts and Implementation, was held in Bled, June 28 – July 1, 2004.
Much of the past research in performance-based earthquake engineering has focused on rigorous approaches to performance assessment and on metrics for communicating performance (in probabilistic terms) to stakeholders. In the design process (design of new structures and upgrading of existing ones), the challenge is to create a system that will deliver desired performance in a cost-effective way. The objective of the international workshop was to assess the states of knowledge and practice related to this challenge so that progress in research and implementation in engineering practice can be accelerated, with a common foundation established on which to base the various approaches advocated in different countries.
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PREFACE
The workshop on “Seismic Design Methodologies for the Next Generation of Codes,” held in Bled, Slovenia, in 1997, initiated considerable progress worldwide to establish basic concepts and methods for performance-based earthquake engineering. An increasing acceptance of PBEE concepts by practicing engineers, together with extensive research, has led to implementation in the design and upgrade of buildings, bridges, and other man-made structures.
Encouraged by the success of the 1997 workshop, we decided to organize an international forum aimed at continuing dialog on the implementation worldwide of new ideas. The International Workshop on Performance-Based Seismic Design — Concepts and Implementation, was held in Bled, June 28 – July 1, 2004.
Much of the past research in performance-based earthquake engineering has focused on rigorous approaches to performance assessment and on metrics for communicating performance (in probabilistic terms) to stakeholders. In the design process (design of new structures and upgrading of existing ones), the challenge is to create a system that will deliver desired performance in a cost-effective way. The objective of the international workshop was to assess the states of knowledge and practice related to this challenge so that progress in research and implementation in engineering practice can be accelerated, with a common foundation established on which to base the various approaches advocated in different countries.
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