Seismic Design Philosophies

This section defines current seismic design philosophies and strategies for achieving satisfactory performance. The emphasis is on performance-based design. This section includes the following topics:

• Performance expectations in current codes
• Uncertainty and randomness in seismic design
• Limit states design
• Current approaches to limit states/performance-based design
• Moving toward performance-based engineering: Vision 2000, SAC Steel project, FEMA 273
  
• Long-term issues and references