2004 Volume 2 Pages 444-454
It will be an important task for local government officers to improve their engineering ability of foreseeing possible earthquake damages. To this end, this paper studies the standardization of earthquake resistance design codes of various structures. Taking advantage of informatics methodology, we reconstruct flowcharts of various design codes such that the earthquake resistance design can be described in a common framework. The usage of object to express each design procedure is effective in standardization. The resulting standard codes which are expressed in terms of common description are expected to help government officers understand the concepts and methods of various earthquake resistance design codes to some proper extent that is needed for them.
