Bollettino n. 68

Probabilistic performance-based seismic design

Contents

1.	Introduction
1.1	Historical development
1.2	On the definition of performance
1.3	Type and nature of models in performance-based engineering
2.	Probabilistic seismic assessment
2.1	Introduction
2.2	Conditional probability approach (IM-based methods)
2.3	Unconditional probabilistic approach
3.	Probabilistic seismic design
3.1	Introduction
3.2	Optimization-based method
3.3	Non-optimization-based methods

Appendix:

Excerpts from MATLAB scripts for PEER PBEE calculations, unconditional simulation calculations and TS algorithm calculations