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Key Points and Pending Issues in the Energy-Based Seismic Design Approach

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Energy-Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE 2021)

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Since the pioneering works conducted by Housner in the 1960s, energy-based seismic design (EBD) has evolved thanks to many researchers. Notwithstanding, it is overshadowed by the force-based design (FBD) approach, and its implementation in seismic codes is currently limited to structures with energy dissipation systems in Japan. The “Vision 2000” report on future design codes identified EBD as a most promising approach towards the paradigm of performance-based design, however. This paper revises key aspects of EBD, particularly how it differs from FBD and displacement-based design (DBD). Important issues to be addressed in the future so as to implement EBD in the seismic design of conventional structures are underlined. New relations between cumulative energy dissipation and maximum displacement for two different restoring force rules—and for two types of ground motions (with and without pulses)—are presented. Furthermore, a simple means of determining the design-value of the ultimate energy dissipation capacity of non-degrading steel components is put forth.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity, research project reference MEC BIA2017 88814 R and received funds from the European Union (Fonds Européen de Dévelopment Régional). This work has been also supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), Sapienza University of Rome (Grant n. RG11916B4C241B32) and the Italian Network of University Laboratories of Seismic Engineering (ReLUIS).

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    Amadeo Benavent-Climent

  2. Department of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, Universidad de Jaén, 23700, Linares, Jaén, Spain

    Jesús Donaire-Ávila

  3. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, via Gramsci 53, 00197, Rome, Italy

    Fabrizio Mollaioli

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Benavent-Climent, A., Donaire-Ávila, J., Mollaioli, F. (2021). Key Points and Pending Issues in the Energy-Based Seismic Design Approach. In: Benavent-Climent, A., Mollaioli, F. (eds) Energy-Based Seismic Engineering. IWEBSE 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73932-4_11

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