Performance-Based Seismic Design
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2024) | Viewed by 4420
Special Issue Editors
Interests: steel structures; aluminuum structures; local buckling; probabilistic methods; seismic design; fatigue behavior
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Interests: finite elements methods; steel structures; concrete structures; performance-based design; seismic assessment; numerical methods; masonry structures; seismic design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Performance-based design represents a method to design the structures in order to achieve specific performance goals or aims, rather than following the code provisions or standard rules. In this way, with fixed specific performance expectations, the structural behavior is evaluated and optimized according to these criteria. The performance-based approach can be applied to existing or new structures as well as different structural typologies (reinforced concrete structures, masonry structures, steel moment frames, etc.).
In recent decades, researchers, engineers and designers have focused their attention on performance-based design by adopting advanced simulation and modelling tools, involving the evaluation of how a structure would perform under various conditions, such as wind, seismic actions, and fire, and, to optimize the design.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to depict the key issues in the application of performance-based design for structures subjected to various loading actions. More specifically, this Special Issue will focus on recent developments, challenges and limitations, case studies, and design codes.
Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New design methodologies;
- Stochastic and deterministic methods;
- New approaches in the retrofitting strategies;
- Evaluation of soil–foundation interaction.
- New dissipative joint connections;
- Seismic vulnerability assessment;
- Dynamic analysis of structures.
Dr. Alessandro Pisapia
Dr. Elide Nastri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seismic evaluation
- probabilistic methods
- damage assessment
- steel structures
- reinforced concrete structures
- masonry
- retrofitting
- repair cost
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