Abstract
This paper presents a study on U.S. and Japanese seismic design code and provisions. Recently, seismic design method in U.S. is varied in design seismic load, and especially for seismic rehabilitation of buildings in nonlinear static procedure and dynamic analysis. Overview of design codes and provisions in U.S. and comparison of spectral response acceleration as design seismic load and dynamic procedure between U.S. and Japan are presented, then method for the estimation of target displacement as the nonlinear static procedure is introduced in this paper.
