PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN AND PUSH-OVER ANALYSIS OF BUILDINGS

Introduction. Performance Based Design and Push Over Analysis are two terms that appear often in modern structural engineering related publications. These terms are still new to many engineers. Push Over analysis is a static, nonlinear analysis, which is very useful to find the weak links and failure modes of existing structures. It is a first attempt by structural engineering profession to evaluate the real strength of the structure. This serves as an effective design tool for performance-based design (capacity-demand evaluation). The increasing popularity of the Push Over analysis compared to general nonlinear dynamic analysis can be attributed to its simplicity in concept and procedure, which can be used with less experience and training. This method has been implemented in very limited general-purpose finite element software including SAP and ETABS.

Objectives.
  * To provide consolidated theoretical background and practical knowledge on
     Performance Based Design and Pushover Analysis of Buildings.
  * To demonstrate the effective usage of modern graphical computing tools for
     carrying out Performance based Design and Push Over Analysis

Outline.
  * Overview of Performance Based Design
  * Push Over Analysis: Concepts, Methods and Tools / Evaluation of Seismic
    Performance of Structures
  * Using ETABS for Push Over Analysis of Buildings
  * Case Studies of Real Buildings
  * Using SAP2000 for Push Over Analysis of Buildings
  * Case Studies and Comparison of results : ETABS & SAP2000

Duration: 16 hours