ABSTRACT
Recently, performance-based design has gained attention as a design method that can provide more rational structural designs. In the performance-based design, it is possible to allow any design as long as it satisfies the requirements of performance. This means that designers can try to produce new innovative structures under more flexible environments. Needless to say, it is necessary for practical design cases to solve such issues as how to prescribe, guarantee, and evaluate the required performance, and prove the rationality and optimality of the design obtained.
