ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Disaster resilience of a building consists of its capacity to restore almost its full functionality in the aftermath of a natural hazard. Controlling the building's resilience is important for developing the hazard mitigation strategy. The main focus of this study is to present a framework for resilience-based design of steel buildings subjected to seismic ground motions that can be extended to investigate the building performance to other natural hazards. A walk-through of the methodology is presented in a case study comprising a 3-storey moderately ductile concentrically braced frame office building located in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The building was designed according to the current Canadian building code and Steel design standard. Herein, damage levels were defined as function of performance levels associated to earthquake intensity, fragility curves were derived from incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) curves obtained from time×history analyses using the OpenSees software and both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties were considered.
