Abstract Performance-Based Engineering (PBE) is a general methodology that allows
designers to conceive and assess the performance of complex structural systems subject to …

Performance-based design (PBD) originated as a response to the considerable structural
and nonstructural damage experienced by buildings during earthquakes in the 1990s. Its …

Civil infrastructure facilities must be designed to withstand demands imposed by their
service requirements and by natural environmental events. In the past four decades …

The devastation inflicted on civil infrastructure by natural disasters has the potential to result
in numerous deaths and huge economic losses. Natural hazards such as hurricanes …

During the past decades, the construction industry has been gradually adhering to major
conceptual approaches such as those of quality, performance and risk. This paper proposes …

It is widely recognized that the most rational way of assessing and reducing the risks of
engineered facilities and infrastructures subject to natural and man-made phenomena, both …

Two attractions to posing structural engineering design problems within the context of
performance are that the design process becomes liberating to the engineer and …

It is now generally accepted that several types of risks can be recognized for built facilities
and environments: they are not limited to collapse and heavy damage but involve comfort …

The construction, maintenance and operation of infrastructure networks represent
substantial impacts, both positive and negative, in all three dimensions of sustainability …

Structural optimization and performance based engineering concepts are simultaneously
emerging as useful tools in the design of building structures. While these concepts have …