Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Light-Frame Wood Buildings

1. Summary This paper discusses recent developments in the direct displacement-based seismic design for light-frame wood buildings. The underlying design philosophy and methodology of direct displacement-based seismic design are first presented. In this design approach, the wood structure is modeled as an equivalent single-degree-of-freedom system with equivalent secant lateral stiffness and equivalent viscous damping ratio representative of …