Advanced Methods for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Building Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natural events inflicting damage and collapse of buildings and infrastructures. In particular, 10,000 people lose their lives on average from earthquakes each year. Not only do earthquakes come in different sizes, they could also occur anywhere in the globe. The demand to reduce the risk associated with earthquakes has been growing every year and leading to a greater research focus on seismic design and seismic performance evaluation. Recently, the performance-based seismic engineering approach has been adopted in the earthquake engineering community. In this approach, multiple seismic performance objectives are specified explicitly, which are defined with combinations of seismic hazard levels and structural and non-structural performance levels, unlike conventional prescriptive design approaches. Critical components of performance-based seismic design and evaluation procedures include state-of-art technologies relating seismic hazard analyses, robust numerical simulation frameworks, and sophisticated performance-based seismic design and assessment methodologies. Although major technologies have been developed, many challenging obstacles have to be solved to make them implemented in code provisions. The Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences on “Advanced Methods for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Building Structures” aims to cover recent advances in the development of major components of seismic performance evaluation and design.

Prof. Sang Whan Han
Guest Editor

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