Resilience-based design of a tall building. Case-study.
Abstract
This paper presents the assessment of performance of a case-study tall building in quantitative manner in terms of structural and nonstructural components damage, repair cost and repair time, following methodology mentioned in FEMA P-58, precursor guidelines of resilience-based design. In the current practice of seismic design, safety is primarily considered to measure the performance of the structure. The recovery of the functionality of the structure, resilience, is not well addressed in the current design approaches. Although today’s performance-based seismic design approaches assess the structural performance of the buildings explicitly for different levels of earthquakes, post-earthquake functionality and consequences are not well evaluated in the design process. For extreme earthquake events, although the global and local responses of structural system of the buildings are generally checked to prevent the total or partial collapse of the building, the extent of damage to nonstructural components, building contents, repair time and cost and casualties are not specifically analyzed.
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References
FEMA P-58-1 (2018). Seismic performance assessment of buildings. Volume 1 – Methodology, Second Edition.
FEMA P-58-2 (2018). Seismic performance assessment of buildings. Volume 2 – Implementation guide, Second Edition.
FEMA P-58-7 (2018). Building the performance you need. A guide to state-of-the-art tools for seismic design and assessment.
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