… This is to certify that the thesis entitled titled “Reliability Based Seismic Design of Open …
on probability-based assessment of building response and reliability based seismic design is …

… in the upper storeys of OGS framed buildings is ignored in … • The open ground storey building
designed with multiplication … vulnerable than Bare Frame (BF) and Fully Infilled Frame (FF). …

… design aid for OGS frames with different bay and storey configurations facilitating development
of fragility based seismic design. … of design guidelines for OGS buildings depending upon …

… gave rise to serious discussion about seismic design philosophy and extensive research
activity on the retrofit of existing steel framed buildings. Two retrofitting strategies emerged as …

… -based earthquake engineering framework aimed at the assessment of fragility, reliability and
… The main concern is first related to the modification of seismic reliability levels achievable …

… logic for Performance Based Seismic Design of wood frame structures. Wang et al. [42] …
based seismic design, the extent of structural damage can be related to performance in seismic …

… (MF) of 2.5, applicable for all OGS framed buildings. The proposed MF is reported as … Open
ground Storey building designed for Magnification factor of 1.0 reaches the Target Reliability …

… of seismic design on blast resistance of RC framed structures located in urban habitat. Numerical
results by Bao and Li [14] revealed that seismic … of RC framed structures. A typical multi-…

… poor seismic performance. This study aims to investigate the efficiency of a new design
methodology to take into account the vertical load effects on the performance of multi-storey CFS …

… Conventional seismic design methods, suggested by most current codes and guidelines [eg,
[1], [2], [3]], and conventionally applied worldwide, are based on the exploitation of the local …