PERFORMANC BASED SEISMIC RELIABILITY.docVIP

PERFORMANCE BASED SEISMIC RELIABILITY EVALUA TION OF RC FRAMES Yong Lu and Xiaoming Gu School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 639798 ABSTRACT: This paper presents a general procedure for evaluating the seismic performance reliability of RC beam-column frames whose performance may be represented by critical storey(s). In the first part, the quantification of the performance limits in terms of the limit curvature and lateral drift for three distinctive performance levels is introduced in probabili