Abstract
When an earthquake occurs, it causes great damage to a large area. Although seismic engineering continues to develop, it is reported that recently occurred earthquakes inflicted major damage to various structures and loss of human lives. Such earthquake damage occurs in high seismic regions as well as low to moderate seismic regions. This special issue contains topics on newly developed technologies and methods for seismic performance evaluation and seismic design of building structures.
Highlights
Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natural events, inflicting damage and the collapse of buildings and infrastructures
The demand on reducing the risk associated with earthquakes has been growing every year and leads to a greater research focus on seismic design and seismic performance evaluation
To protect building structures from earthquakes, it is necessary to conduct the seismic performance evaluation for the structures with reliable methods, and to retrofit the structures appropriately based on the results of the seismic performance evaluation [2]
Summary
Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natural events, inflicting damage and the collapse of buildings and infrastructures. The demand on reducing the risk associated with earthquakes has been growing every year and leads to a greater research focus on seismic design and seismic performance evaluation. Performance-based seismic engineering approach has been being 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. The special issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “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
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