Performance-Based Engineering

Catalog description

Provides an opportunity to utilize and master the framework of performance-based engineering to aid decision making via useful applications. Presents how to estimate the hazard at the site and system of interest, in order to assess system response, predict damage extent, and evaluate system performance in terms of expected loss. Topics include: analyses of hazard, response, damage and loss; synthesis of recent advancement in research and practice with case studies; emphasis on the impact of earthquakes on buildings, with extension to other hazards and systems.