Creating Fragility Functions for Performance‐Based Earthquake Engineering

The Applied Technology Council is adapting PEER's performance‐based earthquake engineering methodology to professional practice. The methodology's damage‐analysis stage uses fragility functions to calculate the probability of damage to facility components given the force, deformation, or other engineering demand parameter (EDP) to which each is subjected. This paper introduces a set of procedures for creating fragility functions from various kinds of data: (A) actual EDP at which each specimen failed; (B) bounding EDP, in which some specimens failed and one knows the EDP to which each specimen was subjected; (C) capable EDP, where specimen EDPs are known but no specimens failed; (D) derived, where fragility…

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