PERFORMANCE-BASED

ENGINEERING
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This topic was prepared by James Harris, J. R. Harris & Company, Denver,
Colorado, drawing liberally on resources from Ron Hamburger of Simpson
Gumpertz & Heger, San Francisco, California, and Finley Charney of Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg. Ron Hamburger has led a significant project to further
develop performance-based earthquake engineering.

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Performance Approach
The fundamental reason for the creation of a
structure is placed at the forefront.
Innovation is permitted, even encouraged.
Characterization, measurement, and
prediction of performance are fundamental
concepts.

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Performance approaches are not easy; therefore, in the short run, they are
not economical. In the long run, they can produce significant economies
through more appropriate allocation of resources.

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Performance-Based Structural
Engineering

Historical review
Motivation
Communications
ICC Performance Code

Modern trends in
earthquake engineering
Performance levels
Global v local
evaluation
Primary and
secondary
Uncertainty

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Basically a table of contents for the presentation. Part 2, the focus on

earthquake engineering, is the longer portion. It is important to recognize
that there is a real and relatively recent precedent that is not based in
earthquake engineering.

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Performance Requirement
A qualitative statement
of a human need,
usually in the form of an
attribute that some
physical entity, process,
or person should
possess.

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A few fundamental examples:

1. Structures used for human occupancy shall provide an environment safe
from structural failure due to loads generated by that occupancy.
2. Structures used for human occupancy shall provide safety against
structural failure due to environmental loads of wind, snow, rain, ice,
earthquake.
3. Structures used to support office occupancies shall not transmit annoying
vibrations created by foot traffic.

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Early Performance Requirement

From the Code of Hammurabi (circa 1700
BCE):
If a builder has built a house for a man and
his work is not strong and if the house he has
built falls in and kills the householder, the
builder shall be slain . . .

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A classic ancestor of building regulations. Very much a performance

requirement with a penalty clause. Today, the penalties are far different.
For example, the Olive View Medical Center was brand new when destroyed
by the 1971 earthquake; yet, the engineer of record was not slain, jailed, or
put out of business as a result. In fact, the design met the codes of the day,
and the engineer was considered for design of the replacement facility. An
argument can be made that codes today protect the engineer.

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Two Opposite Poles

Performance:
An acceptable level of
protection against
structural failure under
extreme load shall be
provided.

Prescriptive:
diameter bolts
spaced no more than 6
feet on center shall
anchor the wood sill of
an exterior wall to the
foundation.

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Both types of rules are needed. Performance allows the better mousetrap.
Prescriptive allows economy to be reproduced. Continuing with rules for
conventional wood framed dwellings, the rules for double top plates,
minimum header sides, etc. Are all based upon normal spans and the
weakest available materials.

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Why Prescriptive?
Simple to design and check.
Simple can be economical.
No need to re-invent the
wheel on every new project.

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If it isnt broken, dont fix it.

Not only is design more economical, construction can be more economical.
And quality assurance (QA) is not only much more economical, the reliability
of QA is probably higher.
To a very real extent, our society depends on such economy.

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What Is Wrong with Prescriptive?

Loss of rationale leads
to loss of ability to
change.
Loss of innovation leads
to loss of economy.
Loss of rationale can
lead to loss of
compliance.

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Our earthquake design standards have proven very vulnerable to the third
factor cited.
There are also instances in which the first item has been a real restraint:
many engineers designing dwellings of light wood framing strongly resisted
the change in the prescriptive assumption that all wood diaphragm structures
should be analyzed as flexible diaphragms, primarily because they were
comfortable with existing practice.

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Whats Wrong with Performance

Standards?
Quantitative criteria:
Sometimes difficult to develop
Often difficult to achieve consensus
Evaluation procedures:
Measurement is the key it is essential to
find a way to measure (analytically or
experimentally) a meaningful quantity

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Fundamental questions include:

1. How safe is safe enough?
2. How much vibration is too much?
3. How do you measure?
4. How do you predict in advance?

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Early Performance Standards at NBS

(now NIST)
1969: Performance concept and its
application
1970: Criteria for Operation Breakthrough
1971: PBS performance criteria for office
buildings
1975: Interim performance criteria for solar
1977: Performance criteria resource
document for innovative housing

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At this point we will make a brief examination of the development of

performance standards at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS but now
NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology) roughly 30 years
ago. Most of the work at NBS was being done for other federal agencies,
including HUD, GSA, and ERDA (now DOE).
Significant parallel efforts were under way in western Europe at the same
time.

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NBS Format
R
C

A set of performance requirements

A set of quantitative performance criteria for
each performance requirement

E
C

One evaluation procedure for each

performance criterion
A commentary if appropriate

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Translating the nonquantitative performance requirement into quantitative

(measurable) performance criteria is a key step that requires great care. It
will often change with time whereas performance requirements should
change much less frequently. Nevertheless, even performance
requirements do change with time; the Americans with Disabilities Act is a
good example of how society can decide to create a performance
requirement that simply was not a design requirement a quarter of a century
earlier.

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Performance Requirements Circa 1976

1. The structural system shall support all loads
expected during its service life without
failure.
2. The structure shall support the service
loadswithout impairing functionor
appearanceor causing discomfort.
3. Floor and wall surfaces shall resist service
loadings without damage.

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Consider floor surface. For housing, the old standard was a double wood
floor (rough board subfloor plus tongue and groove finish board); it was
being replaced by a single layer of plywood. How strong and stiff did it need
to be? NBS resorted to physical testing for the fundamental evaluation
procedure for innovating housing.

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Criteria for Requirement 1 (Safety)

1.1 Resistance to ultimate load
Eight items to evaluate
Based on probabilistic reliability
1.2 Resistance to progressive collapse
No real evaluation; mostly commentary
1.3 Resistance to repeated loads
Evaluation focused on physical testing

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Three overall criteria, but only one has specific evaluation procedures. It is
the classic strength requirement in which strength is evaluated in a load and
resistance factor approach as shown partially in following slides.

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Evaluations for Resistance to

Maximum Load
Load combinations for additive and
counteracting loads
Computations of load effects
Foundation settlements
Factored resistance, mean and variation in
resistance
Ductility

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These are very brief descriptions of the particular evaluation procedures.

One load combination is shown following. The other procedures are
somewhat simpler statements.

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Maximum Loads
U = 1.1 D + 1.45[Q + iFi]
where:
D = dead load
Q mean maximum variable load (= 1.25L, 1.2S,
1.0H, 0.85W, 1.4E, or 1.0T)
i = factor for arbitrary point in time load
Fi = L, S, H, W, E, or T

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This LRFD format is quite similar to AASHTOs in which there is a factor

times a sum of factored loads. Compare with current 1.2 D + 1.6 L + 0.5 S

The concept that the maximum load effect from a set of variable loads can
be evaluated by taking one of the variable loads at its expected maximum
(the 1.45 times Q) plus the arbitrary point in time value for all the other
variable load, then repeating the exercise by rotating through the variable
loads, with each one being in the Q position once . . . this know as Turkstras
rule. It is much simpler than evaluating the total probability of joint
occurence of variable loads.

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Partial vs. Pure Performance

Specification of the load factors creates a
procedural standard whereas specification
of a reliability level would be more purely
performance
Analytical evaluation
Experimental evaluation ($$$)

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How safe is safe enough defined by either a probability of failure less than
0.001 per year or by a factored strength exceeding a factored load? The
probability is not computed directly in the factored load approach. Direct
computation of probability of failure in practice is difficult due to a lack of
statistical information. Probabilistic approaches are good tools for
consensus committees to evaluate the how safe question. When it is used
on an individual project, a peer review team is suggested.

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Performance-based Design
Design specifically
intended to limit the
consequences of one or
more perils to defined
acceptable levels
Perils addressed:
wind, fire, snow,
earthquake, live loads

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This is not meant to imply that a building designed under performance

concepts for one hazard needs to be designed under performance concepts
for all hazards, only that design must consider at least all these hazards.

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All Design Is Intended to Achieve

Performance . . .
Protect the public safety by
minimizing the chance for:
Uncontrolled or inescapable
fire
Structural collapse
Spread of disease
Limit occupant discomfit by
controlling:
Noise
Vibration
Environment

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This could be rephrased as (1) protect public safety and health and (2)
provide functional serviceability. Of course there are other societal goals,
such as:
1. Controlling the economic impact of large scale natural disasters,
2. Reducing barriers to the disabled, and
3. Avoiding the uncontrolled release of toxic materials.

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 But Most Building Code Provisions Are

Not Performance-based

DING
BUIL
E
COD

Codes typically
prescribe design and
construction rules:
Believed capable of
attaining desired
performance
Largely based on
past poor
performance

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Structural provisions of building codes tend to be a mix of prescriptive rules

for construction (for conventional wood framing) and detailed procedures
for structural analysis and design.

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Designers Following These Codes . . .

BUILDIN
G

CODE

Learn to follow the rules, but

often:
Dont know why the
rules require certain
things.
Dont understand the
performance intended.
Dont know how to adjust
the rules to get different
performance.

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Such refinement in procedure can lead to the situation that Alexis de

Tocqueville described as a characteristic of China in his book Democracy in
America. Paraphrasing:
The nation was absorbed in productive industry, but science itself no longer
existed, which led to a strange immobility in the minds of the people. The
Chinese followed in the track of their forefathers, but had forgotten the
reasons by which the latter had been guided. They still used the formula
without asking for its meaning. They lost the power of change...

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Performance-based Design
Requires the designer
to understand:
Intended
performance
Relationship
between design
features and
performance
Forces the designer to
predict expected
performance given
a design event

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The understanding does not come easy. Our educational system for
structural engineers does not deliver it, and it is not developed naturally in
practice. Tools to predict performance, assuming significant inelastic
response in a dynamic event, are in their infancy.

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Earthquake Design Level

SEAOCs Vision 2000

Unacceptable
Earthquake Performance Level
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Horizontal axis: performance degrades step by step to the right.

Vertical axis: size of earthquake increases as you step down.
This is a refinement of the commentary to the old SEAOC Blue Book. A
building designed according to the recommendations will be expected to
survive minor earthquakes with little, if any, damage; moderate earthquakes
with some nonstructural and structural damage; and major earthquakes with
significant damage. (This is a paraphrase, not a quote.)

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Motivation for PBE (Structural)

A modern garage at Cal State Northridge.

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The structure collapsed in an earthquake that would not be considered to be

as large as appropriate for structural collapse (i.e., less than the NEHRP
Recommended Provisions MCE earthquake ground motion). The gravity
load system included precast columns on a grid of about 18 ft by 50 ft with
corbels that supported precast prestressed rectangular beams that, in turn,
supported a cast-in-place post-tensioned slab. The lateral system included
the slab as a diaphragm and the exterior special moment frames of
concrete. The interior columns failed, probably due to shear generated by
drifts large enough to cause the interior beams and columns to act as a
frame. The exterior frame demonstrates that concrete can indeed exhibit
ductility.

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Motivation for PBE (Structural)

A modern wood-frame residential building on Sherman Way.

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The Northridge earthquake -- parking below lacked enough braced walls.

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Motivation for PBE (Nonstructural)

Veterans Administration Medical Center in Sepulveda.

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Nonstructural damage required the facility to close temporarily.

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Motivation for PBE

What is wrong with current building codes?

Only a single performance level is checked.

Only a single seismic event is applied.
Linear static or dynamic analysis.
No local acceptance criteria.

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Code conforming designs have wide variations in real performance,

particularly in terms of economic damage.

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Concepts Incorporated within PBE

Multiple performance levels are checked.

Multiple seismic events are applied.
May utilize nonlinear analysis.
Detailed local acceptance criteria
For structural elements
For nonstructural elements

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Examples of performance and event levels combined for a building with

ordinary occupancies:
No collapse in maximum considered ground motion (2500 year MRI)
Life safe performance (no falling hazards) in design ground motion (500
year MRI)
Another example could be immediate reoccupancy for an essential facility
in the design ground motion.
The detailed local acceptance criteria indicate element-by-element checking,
rather than an overall system R factor such as is used in the conventional
design of new buildings.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Basic Resource Documents

Performance-based Seismic Design
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEMA 356

FEMA 350 July, 1999

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

FEMA 350 July, 1999

Recommended Seismic Evaluation

and Upgrade Criteria for Welded

Vision 2000
(new buildings)

FEMA 356
(existing buildings)

Steel Moment Frame Structures

Steel Moment-Frame Buildings

Program to Reduce the Earthquake Hazards of

Structural Engineers Association

of California

Steel Moment-Frame Buildings

Recommended Seismic Evaluation
and Upgrade Criteria for Welded

Steel Moment Frame Structures

Prestandard and Commentary

For Seismic Rehabilitation
Of Buildings

Program to Reduce the Earthquake Hazards of

Vision 2000
A Framework for Performance
Based Structural Engineering

FEMA 350/351
(steel moment frame
buildings)

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Vision 2000 was written by 1995. It set forth a form that recognized that
different levels of performance are necessary for different types of buildings,
especially where control of economic loss was necessary. The next step
was FEMA 273 for the rehabilitation of existing buildings; FEMA 356 is the
second edition of this document. The high expense of rehabilitation of
existing buildings drove a need for increased economy. The SAC project
developed a significant improvement in quantitative prediction of
performance.

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The PBD Process

Select Performance Objectives
Perform Preliminary Design
Verify Performance Capability
Calculations

Testing

Deemed to Comply

Construction

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The focus in this topic is on analytical methods to predict/verify performance.

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Vision 2000 / FEMA 356

Performance Objectives
Specification of:
Design Hazard (earthquake ground shaking)
Acceptable Performance Level
(maximum acceptable damage given that
shaking occurs)
+

Performance =
Objective
Ground
Motion
x% - 50 years

Performance
Level

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The basic statement is essentially deterministic: given a certain level of

ground motion (generally selected on a probabilistic basis), then a certain
deterministic performance level was to be achieved.

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Performance Objectives
For performance-based design to be successful, the
needs of both the client and engineer must be
satisfied.
Engineer -Hazard must be
quantifiable and
performance must
be quantifiable

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Engineers are most comfortable with quantitative decision making. Some

clients will be comfortable with quantified probabilities, others will not. Many
people will want deterministic assurance. This is a communications
minefield.

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Performance Objectives
For performance-based design to be successful, both
the client and engineer must be satisfied

Owner -Hazard must be

understandable and
performance must
be understandable
and useful

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Nonengineers will not necessarily be satisfied with the conventional

quantities of engineering decision making

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Hazard
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Acceleration, g

0.10
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10

20

30

-0.20
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40

The intensity and

characteristics of
ground shaking that
design is developed to
resist.

-0.40
-0.50
Time - Seconds

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Topics 15-3 and 15-4 focus on selection of appropriate descriptions of the

ground shaking hazard.

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Hazard
Two methods of expression:
Deterministic
Magnitude x earthquake
on y fault
Probabilistic
x % probability of
exceedance in y years
for design event

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Nonengineers may think they understand a lot when magnitude is used,

but engineers must be careful for it will not be clear just what the
nonengineers actually perceive about magnitude. Attenuation and site
effects are certainly not well understood.

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 Easy to understand
but . . .
there is considerable
uncertainty as to how
strong the motion from
such an event actually is.

Probability of Exceedance

Deterministic Hazards
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
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0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.2

1.4

1.2

1.4

Peak Ground Acceleration - %g

Probability Density Function

0.12
0.1
0.08
0.06
0.04
0.02
0
-0.02

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

Peak Ground Acceleration - %g

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Median probability on the upper graph is mode of the lognormal distribution.

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Probabilistic Hazards
Need to move clients to
probabilistic mind set.
Commonly used for other
considerations such as:
Probable occupancy rates,
Probable cost of
construction, and
Probable return on
investment.

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Client may be more amenable to probabilistic estimates than engineers

imagine.

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Probabilistic Hazards
Low intensity shaking occurs frequently.
Moderate intensity shaking occurs occasionally.
Severe shaking occurs rarely.

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Note that the curves on this chart are normalized to a design point at a 10%
probability of exceedance in 50 years. The significance is that the actual
peak ground acceleration at the design point is not 1.0g for any of the three
locations. It is accurate that the ground motions at more remote probabilities
are a larger multiple of the design point for Memphis than for San Francisco.
In fact the predicted ground motions in Memphis do exceed those for San
Francisco, but the annual frequency of occurrence at which this occurs is
between 0.001 and 0.0001.

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Probabilistic Hazards
Probability of exceedance for design event:
10%/50 years
(500 year mean return) traditionally taken as
hazard for life safety protection
2%/50 years
(2,500 year mean return) traditionally taken as
hazard for collapse avoidance
Hazard for economic loss protection can be taken
at any level based on cost-benefit considerations.

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Note that appropriately round numbers are used here for the mean return
interval. Engineers have a bad habit of going to extreme precision.

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Earthquake Hazard Levels (FEMA 273)

Probability

MRI

Frequency

50%-50 Year

72 Years

Frequent

20%-50 Year

225 Years

Occasional

10%-50 Year (BSE-1) 474 Years

Rare

2%-50 Year* (BSE-2)

Very Rare

2475 Years

*NEHRP Maximum Considered Earthquake.

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The first, third, and fourth lines have been used or advocated for various
purposes. The 20% in 50 years has not been used much. Note the
unjustified precision in MRI, which is a direct computation based on the
Poisson assumption of earthquake occurrence.

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Performance Level
The permissible amount
of damage, given that
design hazards are
experienced.

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Engineers are not well trained to think of damage levels; our education
focuses on computation of specific strength limit states that are usually
idealized states (e.g., the plastic moment capacity of a steel beam or the
maximum bending moment capacity of a concrete beam) without much focus
on the formation of buckles in beam flanges or cracks in the concrete beam
let alone on how badly cracked a masonry faade will be when the structural
drift goes to a certain level.

FEMA 451B Notes

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ICC Performance Code

Allows user to systematically achieve various
solutions.
Prescriptive code deemed to be acceptable.
Procedure to address the alternate materials
and methods clause of code.
Commentary highly recommended.

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The ICC Performance Code follows the tradition from the earlier work on
general structural performance. Much of it focuses on design for fire safety.
The following slides briefly review the general structure and the structural
performance criteria.

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ICC Performance Code

Committee envisions limited code changes
in the future, except that acceptable
methods will be an evolving process.

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The concept is that societal needs change less rapidly than technological
solutions. Some recent trends, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act
and mandated energy conservation, belie that notion.

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ICC Performance Code

Purpose -- To provide appropriate health,
safety, welfare, and social and economic
value, while promoting innovative, flexible
and responsive solutions.
Intent -- A structure that will withstand loads
associated with normal use and of the
severity associated the location.

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The purpose is an overriding performance requirement.

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ICC: Administrative Provisions

Functional statements:
Design professional qualifications
Design documents required for review
Construction compliance to be verified
Maintenance of performance-based design
over life of building

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Procedures for verification are more important for innovative design. The
dots at the bottom indicate that there are more administrative functional
statements than shown here.

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ICC Administrative Provisions

Performance requirements
Building owner responsibilities
Design professional qualifications
Special expert responsibilities
Documentation
Concept report and design reports
O & M manual

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Owners may be obligated to maintain new technologies. Although much of

this is aimed at fire prevention and control, there are also structural
technologies that could require maintenance over the life of the structure
(e.g., some types of dampers and isolators). As technologies become more
sophisticated, more division of expertise is natural.

FEMA 451B Notes

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ICC Use Groups

Basis for assignment:
Function
Risks to users

Risk factors:
Nature of hazard
Number of people
Length of time occupied
Sleep facility
Familiarity
Vulnerable groups
Relationships

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Different hazards could logically result in different occupancy classes.

FEMA 451B Notes

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ICC Performance Groups

Performance Group

Description

Low hazard to humans

II

Normal buildings

III

Hazardous contents

IV

Essential facilities

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This classification is very similar to that in ASCE 7

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ICC Design Performance (Damage)

Levels
Size of
event
V. Large

Perf.
Group I
Severe

Perf.
Group II
Severe

Perf.
Group III
High

Perf.
Group IV
Mod

Severe

High

Mod

Mild

Medium

High

Mod

Mild

Mild

Small

Mod

Mild

Mild

Mild

(v.rare)

Large
(rare)

(frequent)

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Severe means that the performance level accepts severe damage.

Damage levels are explained more on following slides; size of event will also
be discussed in more detail. Ordinary buildings are Group II.

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Mild Damage Level

No structural damage; safe to occupy

Necessary nonstructural is operational
Minimal number of minor injuries
Minimal damage to contents

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ICCs definition of structural performance levels.

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Moderate Damage Level

Structural damage, but repairable; delay in
reoccupancy
Necessary nonstructural operational
Locally significant injuries but low likelihood of
death
Moderate cost of damage
Minimal risk from hazardous materials

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Hazmat is shorthand for release of hazardous materials.

FEMA 451B Notes

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High Damage Level

Significant structural damage, but no large
falling debris; repair possible but long-term
Necessary nonstructural damaged
significantly
Injury and death possible
but moderate numbers
Hazardous materials release
locally

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This damage level is close to the safety limit state for conventional
probabilistic load and resistance factor design.

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Severe Damage Level

Substantial structural damage, but collapse is
avoided; repair may be infeasible
Necessary nonstructural not functional
Likely single life loss; moderate probability of
multiple lives lost
Damage may total the building
Hazardous materials release requires
relocation

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This is the current basis for earthquake-resistant design under the

maximum considered earthquake ground motion.

FEMA 451B Notes

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MRI for Environmental Loads

Event
Size
Small

Flood

Wind

Snow

Ice

Earthquake

20 100

50

25

25

25

Medium

50 500

75

30

50

72

Large

100 SS 100

50

100

475

V. large

500 SS 125

100

200

2475

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MRI = mean recurrence interval.

SS = site-specific study (note that the values for flood loads in the final draft
are in black whereas the values in the actual published document are in red.
The values for wind and snow are really not consistent with existing practice
and should not be used in the opinion of the author.
The values for earthquake are 72 = 50% in 50 years; 475 = 10% in 50 years;
2475 = 2% in 50 years.

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ICC Performance Code

Appendices
A. Use classification related to main code
B. Worksheet for assignment to performance
groups
C. Individually substantiated design method
D. Qualification characteristics
E. Use of computer models

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The appendices are a key feature of the document. In addition, there is a

Users Guide, which is very much like a commentary very few model
codes include a commentary but the guidance is needed here.

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Performance-Based Structural
Engineering

Historical review
Motivation
Communications
ICC Performance Code

Modern trends in
earthquake engineering
Performance levels
Global v local
evaluation
Primary and
secondary
Uncertainty

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Repeat of the table of contents for this topic. The remainder of the
presentation will focus more specifically on earthquake engineering.

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Performance-Based Earthquake
Engineering
Two driving factors:
High cost of upgrading existing structures
now considered unsafe
Requires more exacting assessment
High cost of damage and associated impacts
from structural performance in earthquakes
Higher performance criteria

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This has been alluded to previously but is emphasized here.

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Performance Levels
Engineer -amount of yielding,
buckling, cracking,
permanent deformation that
structure experiences

Owner -Will the building be safe?

Can I use the building after
the earthquake?
How much will repair cost?
How long will it take to
repair?
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Notice the contrast in issues and values for decision making.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Standard Structural
Performance Levels
Joes

Operational

0%

Joes

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Beer!
Food!

Immediate
Occupancy

Beer!
Food!

Life
Safety

Damage or Loss

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Collapse
Prevention
99%

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These four categories are the currently favored standard levels; each will be
described in more detail.

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Operational Level

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Negligible structural and

nonstructural damage
Occupants are safe
during event
Utilities are available
Facility is available for
immediate re-use (some
cleanup required)
Loss < 5% of
replacement value

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You can walk in immediately after the earthquake with no perceptible

concern for structural safety or for any incipient collapse hazards; there is
electric power for lights and to keep the beer cold; there is water to prepare
food and gas to cook it, and the sewer system functions to carry away
waste. For an office building, communications systems will be in order. The
losses will probably be even smaller than 5% and will be mostly confined to
fragile contents. Note that many of the key issues here are out of the design
control of the structural engineer, specifically the functioning of the external
utility systems.

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Immediate Occupancy Level

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Negligible structural
damage
Occupants safe during
event
Minor nonstructural
damage
Building is safe to
occupy but may not
function
Limited interruption of
operations
Losses < 15%

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The primary difference between operational and immediate (re)occupancy is

the performance of external utility systems. In other words, the structural
performance is essentially the same. This is a green tag building.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Life Safety Level

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Significant structural
damage
Some injuries may
occur
Extensive nonstructural
damage
Building not safe for
reoccupancy until
repaired
Losses < 30%

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In conventional jargon, this is a yellow tag building. It is not a given that the
utilities would not function. The key issue here is that the structural safety,
or perhaps life safety provided by necessary nonstructural systems, is
compromised.

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Collapse Prevention Level

Extensive (near
complete) structural and
nonstructural damage
Significant potential for
injury but not wide scale
loss of life
Extended loss of use
Repair may not be
practical
Loss >> 30%

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This near collapse limit state is perhaps more meaningful on a philosophical

basis. Accurate prediction of this level of performance is most difficult.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Global Response and Performance

Joes

Joes

Loading Severity

Beer!
Food!

Beer!
Food!

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Structural Displacement

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The load v displacement curve should not be thought of simply as a

monotonic loading process. The earthquake is a dynamic event with several
cycles of large displacement.

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Evaluation Approach
4 - Determine
5 - Determine
drift & component performance
demands
Joes

10-1

10-2

10-3

Beer!
Food!

Lateral Force - V

Annual Probability of Exceedance

1 - Select hazard
level

10-4

Joes
Beer!
Food!

LS

10-5
0

.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

CP

Lateral Displacement -

Spectral Acceleration at Period T

2 - Determine ground
motion Sa
3 - Run analysis

6 - Pass or fail criterion

evaluated on component
by component or global
structural basis

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Note that this procedure does not address performance of external utilities,
which means that it cannot deliver any assurance of operational
performance.

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What Type of Analysis?

The answer depends on:
What performance level
you are hoping to
achieve.
The configuration of the
structure.
How accurate you need to
be.
A wide range of choices are
available.

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Suggested answers come in following slides; they may not be intuitive.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Superior Performance Levels

Joes

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Beer!
Food!

Behavior will be essentially elastic

Regular structures with short periods
Linear static procedures are fine
Regular structures with long periods and all irregular
structures - linear dynamic procedures are better
Response spectra accurate enough

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If you want to limit structural performance to near linear behavior, then linear
analysis is adequate and economical.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Poorer Performance Levels

Joes
Beer!
Food!

Inelastic behavior is significant (elastic analyses are the wrong

approach!)
Structures dominated by first mode response
Pushover analysis may be adequate
Structures with significant higher mode response
Nonlinear time history necessary
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The great irony: Low budget structures are designed for more damage,
which, in reality, should require the most sophisticated, demanding, and
expensive engineering design. Dream on!

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Judging Performance
Acceptability
Acceptance criteria are
indicators of whether
the predicted
performance is
adequate
Local (componentbased)
Global (overall
structure-based)

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Nonstructural criteria can be added and are necessary for the higher
performance levels.

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Force

Local Response and Performance

Backbone
curve

Actuator

Deflection

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The second cycle backbone curve is taken as a standard technique to

capture some aspect of stability in response. There are elements and
components where it could be questioned, but the acceptance criteria
typically account for strongly degrading behavior with lower limits on ductility.

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Local (Component-based)
Acceptance Criteria
F
Life
Safety

Immediate
Occupancy

D
Collapse
Prevention

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Criteria in recent performance documents, such as the SAC FEMA 350

report, are actually based on specific actions of components (flexure at
member end, joint shear, etc).

FEMA 451B Notes

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Component Backbones and

Acceptance Criteria
F

Brittle Behavior
(Force Controlled)

Ductile Behavior
(Deformation Controlled)

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A key distinction is that components that exhibit brittle or near brittle behavior
are governed by strength requirements whereas ductile behavior is checked
on displacement/ductility (although force is a surrogate for displacement in
some methods).
Classification as a ductile component (or action) generally requires that
maximum displacement (without substantial loss of resistance) must exceed
twice the effective yield displacement.
The plot at the right shows a region of strength degradation; the vertical
transition is arbitrary and may need to be altered for analytical stability.

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Disadvantages Associated with

Local Acceptance Criteria
The weakest or most
highly damageable
element controls the
structures
performance.
The effect on global
stability is difficult to
judge.

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Collapse
Prevention

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For immediate occupancy this is not a significant disadvantage. For collapse

prevention, this disadvantage is very important; some elements can be
essentially destroyed while a structure maintains stability.

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Building Configuration
Hierarchy of parts that comprise a building:
Elements
Components
Actions

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This terminology is not general -- i.e., it is not a dictionary definition. It has

been used for the past few years, since the development of FEMA 273, in
earthquake engineering.

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Elements
Horizontal or vertical
subassemblies that
comprise a structure:
Braced frame
Moment frame
Shear wall
Diaphragm

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By this terminology, elements may contain many components.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Components
Individual members that
comprise an element:
Beam
Column
Joint
Brace
Pier
Footing
Damper

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For shear walls, coupling beams, wall piers, etc, would be components.

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Actions
Independent degrees of
freedom associated
with a component, each
with an associated force
and deformation:
Axial force elongation
Moment - rotation
Torsional moment twist

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These are the most frequently used quantities for local acceptance criteria.

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Primary and Secondary Parts

Primary Elements:
Any element
(component) {action}
required to provide
the buildings basic
lateral resistance.
Similar to the
concept of a
participating
element in the
building code.

Secondary:
Any element
(component) {action}
that is not required to
provide the buildings
basic lateral
resistance.
May participate
but is not required
to do so.

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This concept was developed in FEMA 273, driven by the need for realistic
and economical design of strengthening of deficient existing buildings.

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Primary and Secondary

Permits engineer to utilize judgment in
determining whether a building meets the
intended performance levels.
Secondary elements are permitted to
experience more damage than primary
elements.
Acceptance criteria for secondary elements
are more permissive than for primary
elements.
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Note that secondary elements do not have to be ductile; they may be brittle.
So long as their failure does not result in collapse of some portion of a
building (gravity load carrying capability) and the remaining elements
continue to provide adequate capacity for lateral loads, an element may be
considered secondary.

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Primary & Secondary

Slabs (as diaphragms)
(Primary)
Slabs & interior columns
(as frames) (Secondary)
Walls at elevator & stair
(Secondary)

Plan

Perimeter walls
(Primary)
Elevation
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Note that the slab-column frame is primary for gravity load but not for lateral
load.

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Performance Evaluation
Primary Components
F

IO -

Immediate
occupancy

LS

CP

based on
appearance of
damage
CP - based on loss of
lateral load
resisting capacity
LS - 75 % CP

Life
safety
Collapse prevention
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The force versus displacement relation shown is very generalized. The

maximum displacement for collapse prevention is usually defined as that
displacement where resistance (F) falls below some fraction (say 75%) of
the maximum resistance..

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Performance Evaluation
Secondary Components
F

Immediate
occupancy

LS
CP

IO - based on
appearance of
damage
CP - based on
complete failure
of element
LS - 75% CP

Life
safety
Collapse prevention
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Note that collapse prevention is essentially the loss of all capacity for
secondary components, which is a much larger displacement than allowed
for primary components.
Also note that immediate occupancy is unchanged from primary
components. For this performance level, the perception of damage is
important.

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Disadvantages Associated with

Local Acceptance Criteria
The weakest or most
highly damageable
element controls the
structures performance
The effect on global
stability is difficult to
judge

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Collapse
Prevention

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The introduction of the primary/secondary distinction removes the primary

disadvantage of local criteria.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Incremental Dynamic Analysis

Determining Capacity Limited by Global Stability
1 - Build analytical model

3- Nonlinear time history analysis

2- Select a ground motion

t

4- Find maximum
displacement

5- Scale ground motion up & repeat

t

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This dynamic analysis requires reliable component action

resistance/displacement relations. When it has that, and other reasonably
accurate modeling criteria are satisfied, this becomes a tool for checking
global stability. It is a relatively new concept, and to date has shown some
surprising results

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Incremental Dynamic Analysis

t
t

Ground Motion Intensity Measure

Determining Capacity Limited by Global Stability

Global capacity

Maximum Displacement

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In this example, the same ground motion is repeatedly applied, simply

scaling the amplitude up in each successive step. Here the response is
relatively uniform, and the global capacity is relatively obvious. This nice
result is not always obtained.

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Perception of a Guarantee
It was supposed
to provide
immediate occuancy!!

I followed the
guidelines???
Maybe I
should call
my
attorney!!!

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The best practice is followed, an earthquake occurs, and the client/owner is

unhappy about the performance.
Engineers have long talked about earthquake resistant construction, and
the public has usually heard earthquake proof construction. This goes
back to the communication problem discussed earlier. Performance based
earthquake engineering encourages more effective communication. This by
no means solves all the problems associated with perception of a guarantee,
but it can help

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How Could This Happen?

Loading that will occur in the future is
uncertain.
Actual strength of materials and quality of
construction is variable.
Neither the real demands nor the capacity of
the structure to resist these demands can be
perfectly defined.

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The amount of uncertainty about earthquake ground motion, dynamic

response, and especially inelastic response is very large compared to most
of the structural engineering design problems.

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Spectral Acceleration (at fundam ental period), g

Ground Motion and Capacity are

Uncertain and Variable
2.5
LA23
2
LA28
1.5
LA22
1
LA30

0.5

0
0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

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This shows the results of incremental dynamic analyses on one system

subjected to several different ground motions. Clearly there will not be one
unique displacement; there is scatter in the results

FEMA 451B Notes

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Capacity, Demand, and

Performance Prediction
Global Life Safety Limit
Target Displacement

LATERAL RESISTANCE ( kips)

16000

Capacity
uncertainty

Demand
Uncertainty

14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
0

10

20

30

40

ROOF DISPLACEMENT (in.)

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The resistance/displacement relation is not certain, the ground motion is

uncertain, therefore the demand is uncertain. The capacity is uncertain. In
this example the median capacity exceeds the median demand. However,
capacity uncertainty in yellow and demand uncertainty in pink have
substantial overlap, therefore there is uncertainty about whether the limit will
be met.

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Performance Objective Redefined

Vision 2000 / FEMA 273/356:
Damage will not exceed desired level, given that
ground motion of specified probability is
experienced.
SAC Approach:
Total probability of damage exceeding a desired
level, will not exceed a specified amount, given
our understanding of site hazards.
Confidence level associated with achieving this
performance is defined.

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The FEMA 273 approach appears relatively deterministic to the user, with
the exception that capacity reduction factors can vary with the degree of
knowledge about the resistance.
SAC extended the degree of consideration of variability in two significant
ways: factors to account for uncertainty in demand are explicitly selected,
depending on several parameters, and the confidence level of meeting a
criterion is computed.

FEMA 451B Notes

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Performance Objectives
Redefined
highly
I am moderately confident
not very
that there is less than x%
chance in 50 years
that damage will be worse than
Immediate occupancy
Collapse prevention
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How confident is confident enough? -- Similar to how safe is safe enough?

However some quantification is much better than none at all, plus it gets rid
of the perception of a guarantee.
The x% in 50 years is the selected hazard probability level.

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Total Probability of Damage

Exceeding Specified Level
P (Damage > PerLev ) = P D > C GM P (GM )
D = demand (drift, or force) = b (GM) - random variable D
C = capacity (function of drift or force) - random variable c
ln(GM) = kln(PE)

D , C defined in terms of random and uncertain

components
Load and resistance factors derived as products of integration
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Within the integral is the probability that demand exceeds capacity given a
certain ground motion, to be integrated over the probability of occurrence of
the ground motion
Note that b is the slope of the demand vs ground motion relation at the level
of interest
More detail on following slides

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Hazard Level and Load Severity

Minor earthquakes
occur frequently.
Moderate earthquakes
occur occasionally.
Major earthquakes
occur rarely.
Mathematically, k is the
slope of the hazard curve
and indicates how much
more intense motion gets
with decreasing probability
of exceedance.
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This chart shows the hazard level vs frequency of occurrence normalized to

a design point a 10% in 50 years. The parameter k, used in following slides,
is the slope at the design point. It does not capture variations in shape of
the total curve, but it does capture the variations in slope, which can be
substantial

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Uncertainty in Capacity bCU

Global Life Safety Limit

Capacity
uncertainty
LATERAL RESISTANCE ( kips)

16000
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000

CU

2000
0
0

10

20

30

40

ROOF DISPLACEMENT (in.)

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For this example the capacity limit is taken at essentially the beginning of
nonlinear behavior, which happens to be the beginning of capacity
degradation for this system. Beta is a measure of the scatter about the
mean capacity limit

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Uncertainty in Demand bDU

Target Displacement

LATERAL RESISTANCE ( kips)

16000

Demand
Uncertainty

14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000

DU

2000
0
0

10

20

30

40

ROOF DISPLACEMENT (in.)

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Uncertainty in demand can come from uncertainty in ground motion,

uncertainty in dynamic response, and uncertainty in analytical prediction

FEMA 451B Notes

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Demand and Resistance

Factor Procedure
Demand and resistance factors computed as products of
integration, functions of hazard, randomness and uncertainty

=e

k 2
DR
2b

; a = CB e

k 2
DU
2b

; = e

k 2
2
CU + CR
2b

Factored demand -- Capacity ratio used to determine

confidence of successful performance

aD
C

= 1 indicates mean confidence (on order of 60%)

< 1 indicates higher than mean confidence
> 1 indicates less than mean confidence
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In the SAC approach two load factors (gammas) are used, along with one
resistance factor.
All factors depend on the ratio of two slopes: k being the slope of the hazard
curve, b being the slope of the demand vs ground motion level relation; both
evaluated at the design point (tangent, not secant)
Gamma depends on the variability inherent in the prediction of demand
(incorporates scatter in response of real structures to real ground motion)
Gamma-sub-a depends on the bias and variability introduced by structural
analysis, and varies with the method

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Procedure
3. Correct predicted
maximum demands
for known inaccuracies
in prediction method
to obtain median estimate
of demand.

1. Start with frame design:

Configuration
Member sizes
Connection details
2. Analyze frame :
Use ground motion
at appropriate hazard
level (x% - 50 years)
Predict maximum
drift, member
deformations, forces

aD

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In FEMA 350 gamma factors vary with the performance level, the type of
moment frame connection, and the height of the building, and gamma-sub-a
factors vary with these three factors plus the type of analysis procedure used

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Procedure

( a D )
=
C

4. Compute factored
demand to capacity ratio
(DCR)

Confidence

2%
3.0

5%
2.6

10%
2.2

20%
1.9

30%
1.6

40%
1.5

50%
1.3

60%
1.2

70%
1.1

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80%
0.95

90%
0.8

95%
0.7

98%
0.5

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Capacities (C ) and resistance factors phi are specified for various types of
connection details.
The lambda values shown are approximate for an uncertainty level in
demand and capacity on the order of 30 to 40%

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Low Confidence 8 > 1

Global Life Safety Limit
Target Displacement

LATERAL RESISTANCE ( kips)

16000

Capacity
uncertainty

Demand
Uncertainty

14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
0

10

20

30

40

ROOF DISPLACEMENT (in.)

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Note significant overlap of demand and capacity

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High Confidence 8 < 1

Global Life Safety Limit
Target Displacement

LATERAL RESISTANCE ( kips)

16000

Capacity
uncertainty

Demand
Uncertainty

14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
0

10

20

30

40

ROOF DISPLACEMENT (in.)

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Very little overlap of demand and capacity. If the uncertainties were very
small, then the ratio of demand to capacity would only need to be slightly
less than 1.0 for high confidence. We have large amount of uncertainty,
therefore the ratio must be less than 1.0 for reasonable high confidence.

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Summary
Performance-based design for earthquake resistance
is possible.
There is considerable uncertainty associated with
prediction of performance.
LRFD approach developed for steel moment frame
buildings allows the engineer to be honest as to
confidence that performance may (or may not) be
achieved.
Communication is more complex but less dangerous.
Extensive work necessary to derive demand and
resistance factors for various structural systems for
general application.

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At this time, the approach for steel moment frames is relatively complex.
The profession certainly does not understand it well. Thus, further
development is appropriate, is underway, and changes should be expected.
The amount of work to develop the quantitative values for other systems will
be expensive and time consuming.

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