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The 14 th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering October 12-17, 2008, Beijing, China PERMISSIBLE RESIDUAL DEFORMATION LEVELS FOR BUILDING STRUCTURES CONSIDERING BOTH SAFETY AND HUMAN ELEMENTS Jason McCormick 1 , Hiroshi Aburano 2 , Masahiro Ikenaga 3 , and Masayoshi Nakashima 4 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Email: jpmccorm@umich.edu 2 Engineer, Takenaka Corporation, Osaka, Japan. 3 Graduate Student, Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Jap