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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONSThe workshop focused on issues important to the development <strong>of</strong> performance-basedseismic design methodologies that can form the basis for practical guidelines,standards, and code implementation. The emphasis was on general concepts ratherthan issues specific to design and construction practices, and on code approaches invarious countries. The workshop participants recognize that issues specific todifferent materials, innovative structural systems, existing versus new construction,and regions <strong>of</strong> different seismicity have not been addressed.The following recommendations and conclusions have been developed by fourworking groups and are based on extensive discussions <strong>of</strong> the presentations givenduring the first two days <strong>of</strong> the workshop.Working Group on Loss Estimation, Fragilities and Vulnerability, and Impacton Risk ManagementCo-Chairs: Comartin and WhittakerRecorder: MirandaWorking Group Members: Bachman, Cornell, Elnashai, Hutchinson, Lowes,Manfredi, Kawashima, Porter, Reinhorn, Nakashima, Pinho, Pinto P., Sucuoĝlu,Franchin, Iervolino, Kante, KramarConclusions and Recommendations(1) There is an urgent need to install dense arrays <strong>of</strong> instruments in selectedbuildings, bridges, and other structures to collect performance (loss) data. Thestructures and sites should be selected so that the likelihood <strong>of</strong> recording acomprehensive set <strong>of</strong> data for important types <strong>of</strong> structures within a short timeframe is maximized, i.e., the emphasis should be on instrumentation <strong>of</strong> structuresin urban areas <strong>of</strong> high seismicity. This will necessitate the development <strong>of</strong> plansand protocols for damage and loss (performance) data collection, and thedocumentation <strong>of</strong> comprehensive information on properties <strong>of</strong> the structuresbefore the occurrence <strong>of</strong> an earthquake.(2) It is recommended to develop an expert system, essentially a “virtual contractor,”to aid in aggregation <strong>of</strong> capital losses for different damage scenarios, i.e., toenable the calculation <strong>of</strong> capital losses for specified distributions <strong>of</strong> engineeringdemand parameters. The development <strong>of</strong> the expert system knowledge base willrequire the systematic collection and synthesis <strong>of</strong> both loss data from pastearthquakes and information from expert contractors. The expert system shellshould be common to all countries and regions but the knowledge base will varyby region and country.xiii

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