Applicability of Linear Analysis in Probabilistic Estimation of Seismic Building Damage to Reinforced-Concrete Structures

Abstract

As design has moved from strength based to performance based, there has been an effort to relate building response to damage. Because decision-makers typically consider human lives, property damage and cost, setting performance requirements in terms of the damage that a building is likely to sustain over time and its associated cost is more relevant to them. The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) has developed a computationally expensive methodology for estimating cumulative damage to a structure over its lifetime. This thesis shows that linear analysis produces results within an acceptable margin of error when substituted for excessively accurate non-linear, resulting in significant time savings.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA567644

Entities

People

  • Timothy P. James

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Concrete
  • Damage Assessment
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Distribution Functions
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Earthquakes
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Hospitals
  • Materials
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Standards
  • Structural Analysis
  • Structural Engineering
  • Structural Response

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design