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- Title
- Next-Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines: Program Plan for New and Existing Buildings.
- File
- PB2008108225.pdf
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., August 2006, 154 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- FEMA-445
- Abstract
- This publication is a step-by-step program plan for the current FEMA project with the Applied Technology Council to develop next-generation performance-based seismic design procedures and guidelines for structural and nonstructural components in new and existing buildings. This plan offers a background on current code design procedures, introduces performance-based seismic design concepts, identifies improvements needed in current seismic design practice, and outlines the tasks and projected costs for a two-phase program to develop next-generation performance-based seismic design procedures and guidelines.
- Keywords
- ; Seismic design; US FEMA; Procedures; Performance evaluation; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Hazards; Guidelines; Building codes; Structural analysis