ACTION ON CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES FOR PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN CODES

Abstract

  This paper describes the outline of “Action on Civil Engineering Structures for Performance Based Design” issued by JSCE in 2008. This guideline is composed of two sections; general remarks and individual actions. In order to apply to wide variety of structures in civil engineering the concept of “action” in design is classified into three categories in this guideline. These are reference actions independent from the structural characteristics of design objects, action model and action effect. Actions of self weight, imposed loads, traffics, wind, seismic, snow, thermal, waves, currents, geotechnical, impacts, explosion, environmental and rains are systemized under this categories and related with recent data bases significantly in terms of reference actions. Social backgrounds of performance based design such as deregulation (structutral adjustment), accountability, globalization and international standardizations are also introduced in this paper to show how the guideline works in recent design work situations.