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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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THE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS IN JAPANESE BUILDING CODEShunsuke OTANI 1ABSTRACTThe concept and application <strong>of</strong> performance based design and engineering is influenced by thesocial and technical environments in which engineers and researchers live in. The performanceobjectives in Japan are "no serviceability problems from normal loading conditions, nostructural damage under more frequent snow, wind and earthquake events and no loss <strong>of</strong> humanlives under very rare snow, wind and earthquake events." "No serviceability and structuraldamage" is examined by the traditional allowable stress design procedure, while "no loss <strong>of</strong>human lives" is examined either by (a) examining the minimum resistance <strong>of</strong> a structure at theformation <strong>of</strong> collapse mechanisms and the deformation limit <strong>of</strong> yielding members in themechanism or (b) the capacity-demand spectrum procedure.Keywords: National building code; Performance objectives; Code requirements;Design; Construction; Inspection.1. INTRODUCTIONHammurabi, the ruler <strong>of</strong> Babylon (1795-1750 BC), wrote the oldest world-knowncode <strong>of</strong> law, in which he referred to building construction in six paragraphs; the threeparagraphs are quoted below after the translation by L.W. King in 1910.Paragraph 228: “If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shallgive him a fee <strong>of</strong> two shekels in money for each sar <strong>of</strong> surface.”Paragraph 229: “If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct itproperly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then thatbuilder shall be put to death.”Paragraph 232: “If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has beenruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which hebuilt and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.”These paragraphs state that a proper fee should be paid for construction work and,in return, that the constructor (engineer) should be responsible for the safety <strong>of</strong>occupants and the protection <strong>of</strong> contents. The code <strong>of</strong> Hammurabi specified the safetyand serviceability performance, but no loading conditions were defined.1 Chiba <strong>University</strong>,Chiba, Japan517

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