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A First Step towards a General Methodology for the Performance-Based Design of Wind-Excited Structures
Performance-based design (PBD) is becoming the benchmark approach for designing civil structures that rationally meet society’s need for a truly safe built environment. While the principles of PBD have been widely adopted in the field of seismic engineering, the same cannot be said for wind engineering. This paper represents a first attempt to define an appropriate framework to allow the principles of PBD to be fully embraced during the design of building systems to resist severe wind events. Focus is placed on highlighting the necessary steps to reach such a goal, which include the definition of site-specific wind hazard models, of suitable fragility functions as well as of consequence functions that rationally assess damage and losses, while communicating performance in ways that are meaningful to decision-makers. The application of the framework to a case study provides the basis for a discussion on the future challenges that researchers in performance-based wind engineering will have to embrace.
A First Step towards a General Methodology for the Performance-Based Design of Wind-Excited Structures
Performance-based design (PBD) is becoming the benchmark approach for designing civil structures that rationally meet society’s need for a truly safe built environment. While the principles of PBD have been widely adopted in the field of seismic engineering, the same cannot be said for wind engineering. This paper represents a first attempt to define an appropriate framework to allow the principles of PBD to be fully embraced during the design of building systems to resist severe wind events. Focus is placed on highlighting the necessary steps to reach such a goal, which include the definition of site-specific wind hazard models, of suitable fragility functions as well as of consequence functions that rationally assess damage and losses, while communicating performance in ways that are meaningful to decision-makers. The application of the framework to a case study provides the basis for a discussion on the future challenges that researchers in performance-based wind engineering will have to embrace.
A First Step towards a General Methodology for the Performance-Based Design of Wind-Excited Structures
Spence, S. M. J. (author) / Bernardini, E. (author) / Kareem, A. (author)
Structures Congress 2015 ; 2015 ; Portland, Oregon
Structures Congress 2015 ; 1482-1493
2015-04-17
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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