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Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) can be considered as the coupling of expected levels of ground motion with desired levels of structural performance, with the objective of achieving greater control over earthquake-induced losses. Eurocode 8 (EC8) already envisages two design levels of motion, for no collapse and damage limitation performance targets, anchored to recommended return periods of 475 and 95 years, respectively. For PBSD the earthquake actions need to be presented in ways that are appropriate to the estimation of inelastic displacements, since these provide an e ective control on damage at di erent limit states. The adequacy of current earthquake actions in EC8 are reviewed from this perspective and areas requiring additional development are identiÿed. The implications of these representations of the seismic loads, in terms of mapping and zonation, are discussed. The current practice of deÿning the loading levels on the basis of the pre-selected return periods is challenged, and ideas are discussed for calibrating the loading-performance levels for design on the basis of quantitative earthquake loss estimation.

Author

Julian J. Bommer; Rui Pinho

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0098-8847)

Published

2005

Language

EN