ABSTRACT
That the above measures do not consider the effect of cumulative damage indicate that application would be limited to situations where such effects are unimportant. Recent models mostly aim at including these cumulative effects. The effect of cumulative damage to RC members and structures subjected to seismic and other loads has been studied by many researchers. A large number of analytical models that intend to describe measures of damage one way or another, were proposed for steel and RC structures, for example, by Yao and Munse [6], Stephen and Yao [7], Banon et al. [8-10], Gosain et aL [11], Hwang and Scribner [12], Darwin and Nmai [13], Lybas and Sozen [14], Bertero and Bresler [15], Blejwas and Bresler [15], Roufaiel and Meyer [16], Park et al. [18,19], Mizuhata et aL [20], Chung et al. [21], Casciati and Faravelli [22] and DiPasquale and Cakmak [23]. The reader is referred to Chung et aL [24] for a comprehensive review of these and other damage models.
