The parameters used for evaluating structural performance are story drift, damage indices, and structural failure mechanism.
In this paper, interstorey drift damage indices are selected as one of the most extensively used damage measures.
Nonlinear time history analysis is used to verify the structural performance based on three parameters: story drift, damage indices and structural failure mechanism.
Focused on several regular plan concrete building which have been design using displacement based design method, the aim of this study is to verify their performance using nonlinear time history analysis based on parameters: drift, damage indices, and plastic mechanism determined by FEMA 356.
On the basis of this study, the correlation between the energy based and drift based indices is very high in minor damage levels, however, the correlation is decreasing with increasing level of damage due the effect of the number of inelastic cycles.
Furthermore, as was shown by the AAT drift rate indices, the between-conditions differences in data-set 2 were more pronounced in the ABA than in the AAA group.
A strong positive correlation is found between E × B drift and Dst index as well as between delta H and Dst Index.
However, the interstorey drift based damage index does not take into account the effects of the number of inelastic cycles experienced by the structure to determine the damage.
The position of braces investigated the proportional seismic performance, inter-story drift, and damage index to show the effect of this type of bracing systems (Abou Elfath and Ghobarah 2000).
The simulation results show that the FOM value of the optimized structure can attain to 5.74×104 and the sensitivity of resonance wavelength with refractive index drift is about 825 nm/RIU.
