Improved risk‐targeted performance‐based seismic design of reinforced concrete frame structures

Summary This paper presents a procedure for seismic design of reinforced concrete structures, in which performance objectives are formulated in terms of maximum accepted mean annual frequency (MAF) of exceedance, for multiple limit states. The procedure is explicitly probabilistic and uses Cornell's like closed-form equations for the MAFs. A gradient-based constrained optimization technique is used for obtaining values of structural design variables (members' section size and reinforcement) satisfying multiple objectives in terms of risk levels. The method is practically feasible even for real-sized structures thanks to the adoption of adaptive equivalent linear models where element-by-element stiffness reduction is performed (2 linear analyses per intensity level). General geometric and capacity design constraints are duly accounted for. The procedure is applied to a 15-storey plane frame building, and validation is conducted against results in terms of drift profiles and MAF of exceedance, obtained by multiple-stripe analysis with records selected to match conditional spectra. Results show that the method is suitable for performance-based seismic design of RC structures with explicit targets in terms of desired risk levels.

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