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Seismic demands for performance-based design of bridges

Mackie, Kevin R.; Stojadinovic, Bozidar

PEER-2003/16, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2003, 156 pages (400/P33/2003-16)

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center is developing a probabilistic performance-based earthquake engineering framework, one component of which is a seismic demand model. Probabilistic seismic demand analysis was used to compute values of bridge-specific engineering demand parameters (EDPs), given ground motion intensity measures (IM). The objective of this study was the development of an optimal probabilistic seismic demand model (PSDM) for typical highway overpass bridges. An optimal model is defined as one that is practical, sufficient, effective, and efficient.

Available online: http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports/reports_2003/0316.pdf