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Performance Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings
The prescriptive structural provisions of the Building Codes written in the United States and abroad can limit architectural form for tall buildings, stifle innovation that is the hallmark of tall building design, and encourage the use of inappropriate structural systems for tall buildings. The use of such codes, which were not intended to be applied to tall buildings, does not guarantee acceptable structural performance during moderate and severe earthquake shaking. Performance Based Seismic Design provides structural engineers with the flexibility to innovate and to achieve desired performance goals through an integrated design effort involving the state-of-art in seismic hazard computations, response-history analysis and performance assessment.
This CTBUH organized session, part of the 2009 SEI / ASCE Structures Congress, focuses on the latest advances in the field of the seismic design of tall buildings, presenting and illustrating the design recommendations from the CTBUH Seismic Design Working group, which are intended for application around the globe across all levels of seismic hazard.
Chaired by Ron Klemencic, CTBUH Immediate Past Chairman, this session includes the following presentations;
Tall Buildings from Seattle to San Diego – Recent Advances in PBD
Ron Klemencic (President, Magnusson Klemencic Associates)
International Performance Based Seismic Design Practice for Tall Buildings
Michael Willford (Arup Fellow, Arup)
Tall Building Design – CTBUH Recommendations and Application to Regions of Low and Moderate Seismic Hazard
Andrew Whittaker (University at Buffalo)
Tall Buildings – Perspectives of a Building Official
Raymond Lui (Deputy Director, Department of Building Inspection, City and County of San Francisco)
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