| Preface | |
| List of participants | |
| Resolutions | |
| Conclusions and recommendations | |
| Performance-based seismic engineering: A critical review of proposed guidelines | p. 1 |
| Defining performance objectives | p. 33 |
| Opportunities and challenges - Development of performance-sensitive engineering | p. 43 |
| Research issues in performance based seismic engineering | p. 47 |
| Development of performance-based design methodology in Japan | p. 59 |
| Opportunities and pitfalls of performance based seismic engineering | p. 69 |
| International comparisons of concrete element strength requirements in seismic codes | p. 79 |
| Seismic design with vertical earthquake motion | p. 91 |
| Seismic detailing of reinforced concrete structures and performance-based codes | p. 101 |
| Uncertainties associated with ductility performance of steel building structures | p. 111 |
| The improvement of the seismic-resistant design for existing and new structures using damage concept | p. 119 |
| Extreme of structural characteristic factor to reduce seismic forces due to energy absorbing capacity | p. 131 |
| Seismic damage evaluation treated as a low-cycle fatigue process | p. 139 |
| Evaluation of seismic performance parameters | p. 151 |
| A deformation-based seismic design procedure for structural wall buildings | p. 159 |
| Concepts and procedures for direct displacement-based design and assessment | p. 171 |
| A simplified nonlinear method for seismic damage analysis of structures | p. 183 |
| Displacement-based design of RC buildings: Proposed approach and application | p. 195 |
| Performance level criteria and evaluation | p. 207 |
| Development of application of a displacement-based design approach for moment-resisting frame structures | p. 217 |
| Partial inelastic analysis procedure for optimum capacity design of R/C buildings | p. 229 |
| A simple approach for evaluating performance levels of moment-resisting steel frames | p. 241 |
| Estimation of maximum interstory drift demands in displacement-based design | p. 253 |
| Performance assessment for a reinforced concrete frame building | p. 265 |
| Inelastic analysis techniques in seismic evaluations | p. 277 |
| A behaviour-based design approach to earthquake-induced torsion in ductile buildings | p. 289 |
| On the seismic performance of yielding asymmetric multistorey buildings: A review and a case study | p. 299 |
| Seismic response of asymmetrical buildings using pushover analysis | p. 311 |
| Seismic resistance verification of masonry buildings: Following the new trends | p. 323 |
| Masonry infilled frames as an effective structural sub-assemblage | p. 335 |
| Seismic analysis of viaduct structures - Which method to choose? | p. 347 |
| Effect of foundation interaction on reduction factor of RC piers | p. 359 |
| The 1996 Japanese seismic design specifications of highway bridges and the performance based design | p. 371 |
| A displacement-based design approach for seismically isolated bridges | p. 383 |
| Performance-based design of seismic restrainers for simply-supported bridges | p. 395 |
| Notes on definitions of overstrength factors | p. 407 |
| Author index | p. 411 |
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