The collapses of building structures during recent earthquakes have raised many questions
regarding the adequacy of current seismic provisions to prevent a partial or total collapse …

The performance-based seismic design was suggested to overcome the limitations of force-
based seismic design methods used for addressing the inelastic behavior and cyclic loading …

Developed herein is an improved pushover analysis procedure based on structural
dynamics theory, which retains the conceptual simplicity and computational attractiveness of …

The static pushover analysis is becoming a popular tool for seismic performance evaluation
of existing and new structures. The expectation is that the pushover analysis will provide …

Earthquakes are potentially devastating natural events which threaten lives, destroy
property, and disrupt life-sustaining services and societal functions. In 1986, the National …

Owing to the simplicity of inelastic static pushover analysis compared to inelastic dynamic
analysis, the study of this technique has been the subject of many investigations in recent …

An Erratum has been published for this article in Earthquake Engng. Struct. Dyn. 2004; 33:
1429. Based on structural dynamics theory, the modal pushover analysis (MPA) procedure …

The estimation of inelastic seismic demands using nonlinear static procedures, or pushover
analyses, are inevitably going to be favored by practicing engineers over nonlinear time …

The recent drive for use of performance-based methodologies in design and assessment of
structures in seismic areas has significantly increased the demand for the development of …

An improved capacity-demand-diagram method that uses the well-known constant-ductility
design spectrum for the demand diagram is developed and illustrated by examples. This …