Performance-Based Seismic Design of Wood Framed Buildings

An important advancement in structural engineering in recent years has been the development of performance-based seismic design. However, its application to engineered wood framed buildings remains largely unexplored. This paper discusses the application of performance-based seismic design to wood framed buildings through a direct-displacement methodology. In the first part of the paper, limitations of the current force-based seismic design …