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Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Xiao-Kang Zou
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781466616400|ISBN10: 1466616407|EISBN13: 9781466616417
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1640-0.ch009
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Zou, Xiao-Kang. "Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings." Structural Seismic Design Optimization and Earthquake Engineering: Formulations and Applications, edited by Vagelis Plevris, et al., IGI Global, 2012, pp. 208-231. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1640-0.ch009

APA

Zou, X. (2012). Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings. In V. Plevris, C. Mitropoulou, & N. Lagaros (Eds.), Structural Seismic Design Optimization and Earthquake Engineering: Formulations and Applications (pp. 208-231). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1640-0.ch009

Chicago

Zou, Xiao-Kang. "Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings." In Structural Seismic Design Optimization and Earthquake Engineering: Formulations and Applications, edited by Vagelis Plevris, Chara Ch Mitropoulou, and Nikos D. Lagaros, 208-231. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1640-0.ch009

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Abstract

In order to meet the emerging trend of the performance-based design approach and to improve the design efficiency, this chapter presents a numerical optimization technique for both minimum material cost and life-cycle cost design of building structures subject to multiple levels of linear elastic and nonlinear elastic seismic drift performance design constraints. This chapter firstly introduces an elastic seismic drift design of reinforced concrete (RC) building structures based on elastic response spectrum analysis method; and then presents the inelastic design optimization based on the nonlinear pushover analysis method. Finally, the optimal seismic performance-based design of RC buildings is posed as a multi-objective optimization problem in which the life-cycle cost of a building is to be minimised subject to multiple levels of seismic performance design criteria. The computer based optimization methodology developed provides a powerful numerical design tool for performance-based design of RC building structures.

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