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Published June 1996 | public
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Reliability-Based Optimal Design Decisions in the Presence of Seismic Risk

Abstract

A systematic methodology is developed with the objective of incorporating seismic risk in an optimal design decision process for a structure. A general framework for multi-criteria optimal design is presented, extended to include the uncertainties in the seismic loads that a structure may experience during its lifetime, and demonstrated with a simple example.

Additional Information

This paper is based upon work partly supported by the National Science Foundation under grant BCS-9309149 and by the California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering under the CUREe-Kajima Research Program, which is supporting a joint project on optimal design with team members S.F. Mas:ci of the University of Southern California, J .L. Beck of the California Institute of Technology, H.A. Smith of Stanford University and T. Tsugawa of Kajima Corporation of Japan. J.L. Beck is currently on sabbatical leave at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the kind hospitality of J .C. Chen, Director of Research Center, is greatly appreciated.

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