PERFORMANCE BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF STRUCTURES – A REVIEW.

This paper presents an overview of the current state of knowledge with regard to literature on Performance based seismic design method. Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) comprises the design, evaluation, and construction of structures performing during design earthquakes and extreme earthquakes to the desires / needs of owners, user, society and environment. The general promise of performance based design is to produce engineered structures with predictable performance during future earthquakes. Presented in this paper is an updated literature review of the Performance -based Seismic design (PBSD) method. Performance based Seismic design is an elastic design methodology done on the probable performance of the building under different ground motions. The derivatives of the PBSD method, known as the Performance ¬based Plastic design (PBPD) and Displacement-based seismic design (DBSD) method that has been widely recognized as an ideal method for use in the future practice of seismic design has also been reviewed.