ABSTRACT
Owing to a rise in natural disasters in the recent past, there is a need for a resilient community to cope with disasters. In order to make the structure more robust, the idea of resilience-based design has emerged in recent times. This chapter deals with the resilience-based design of reinforced concrete for seismic events. This definition is focused around how well society should be equipped to deal with post-disaster incidents in terms of “recovery” at the optimum expense. The application of the resilience needs a significant amount of economic and social data that will have a direct impact on the assessment of resilience. A broad overview of the loss estimates of buildings due to disasters will be given in this chapter. For optimal recovery time, the various forms of analytical recovery functions that can be used to restore the functionality of the building to its desired level will be addressed.
