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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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CHANGING THE PARADIGM FOR PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGNMichael ASTRELLA 1 and Andrew WHITTAKER 2ABSTRACTThe principal investments in building construction are made in non-structural components andcontents (NCCs). An efficient performance-based design paradigm should focus on these keyinvestments and a new design paradigm is needed in order to do so. Structural framing systemsshould be selected on the basis <strong>of</strong> the required performance <strong>of</strong> NCCs. Protective systemsappear to <strong>of</strong>fer significant advantages over traditional framing systems in terms <strong>of</strong> both smallermedian demands and smaller dispersion in demand for acceleration- and displacement-sensitiveNCCs. The impact <strong>of</strong> structural framing system type on the NCCs demands is illustratedthrough response-history analysis <strong>of</strong> a 1960s-era hospital building located in Southern<strong>California</strong>.Keywords: Performance; Investment; Protective systems; Design paradigm;Nonstructural.1. INTRODUCTIONTo date, tools for performance-based earthquake engineering have focused onperformance assessment <strong>of</strong> structural framing. Only modest attention has been paid toassessment <strong>of</strong> nonstructural components and contents (NCCs) and to the development<strong>of</strong> tools for design <strong>of</strong> structural framing and NCCs.HAZUS (NIBS 1997) provides important information on the financialimportance <strong>of</strong> NCCs in a wide variety <strong>of</strong> building structures. Figure 1 displays theaverage percent investment in structural framing, nonstructural components andbuilding contents for three types <strong>of</strong> building structures: <strong>of</strong>fice, hotel and hospital. Inall cases, the investment in the structural framing is less than 20% <strong>of</strong> the totalinvestment, and the percent investment in hospital construction is a mere 8% <strong>of</strong> thetotal. If a goal <strong>of</strong> performance-based earthquake engineering is to protect financialinvestments by minimizing total cost (including construction cost, annualmaintenance cost and annualized earthquake-damage-related cost), close attentionmust be paid to those parts <strong>of</strong> a building in which the greatest investment is made.1,2 Department <strong>of</strong> Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, <strong>University</strong> at Buffalo, State <strong>University</strong><strong>of</strong> New York, Buffalo, NY 14260113

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