Course Content for Special Lecture Sessions (by Professor Yogendra Singh): Online

Training on PBSD
Session No. Session Date Topics for Discussion
1. Modelling of RC buildings for performance based design
 Column vs shear walls
 Coupled shear walls
Session-1  Various types of lateral load resisting system
2. Role of floor under lateral loads
3. Forces in backstay diaphragms
4. Computer modelling: Linear and nonlinear modelling
Session-2 1. Seismic hazards and methods of nonlinear analysis.
1. Tall buildings with podium and basement and precast
Session-3
structural system

Course Content for Hands-On Sessions (by Mr. Tajul Islam (Ph.D. scholar)): Online
Training on PBSD
Session No. Session Date Topics for Discussion
5. Definition/comparison of various DOF’s for frame elements
and shell elements in ETABS
6. Cracked and Un-cracked section properties
7. Moment Curvature Estimation:
 Manual calculation using Mander’s confined
concrete model (python script),
 Using SAP2000 section designer,
 Using ETABS section designer,
Session-1  Using STKO: Distributed plasticity approach, finite
length hinge approach, zero length moment
rotation hinge approach
8. Importance of meshing in shell elements modelling, size of
meshing, connection between frame and shell elements,
offset modelling.
9. Wide column approach for shear wall modelling.
Comparison of results for wide column and shell element
approach.
1. Understanding the purpose of PBSD
2. Brief discussion on cracked section properties and moment
curvature relation for monotonic and cyclic load cases.
3. Shell element modelling of the Example building for linear
elastic design.
 Modelling of rigid link
 Modelling of dummy beam for load transfer from
beams to shear walls
 Definition of meshing
Session-2  Modelling of end offset and rigid zone factor.
 Assigning cracked section properties for frame and
shell elements.
 Editing the .$et file using text editor to advance
structural modelling.
4. Frame element modelling of the Example building for linear
elastic design.
 Modelling of rigid beam to connect beam at an
offset with shear wall.
 Modelling of end offset and rigid zone factor.
  Assigning cracked section properties for columns
and shear walls.
 Editing the .$et file using text editor to advance
structural modelling.
5. Understanding the response spectra.
6. Understanding the response reduction factor (R) and uses
of appropriate R value for different structural types.
7. Definition of response spectrum load case.
8. Determination of seismic weight and base shear coefficient
for DBE and MCE.
1. Understanding the capacity curves- cyclic vs monotonic
2. Understanding P-M-M interaction curves:
 Manual calculation using Mander’s confined
concrete model (python script),
 Using SAP2000 section designer,
 Using ETABS section designer,
 Using STKO: Distributed plasticity approach, finite
length hinge approach, zero length moment
rotation hinge approach
Session-3
3. Structural modelling, analysis and design of frame-shear
wall building in ETABS for linear elastic design (Wide column
and shell element approach continuation)
4. Base shear correction, Relation between DBE and MCE.
1. Pushover Analysis and Performance Assessment
 Cracked Section Properties as per ASCE 41-17 (python
application)
 Understanding backbone curve parameters as per ASCE
41
 Default M-3 hinge definitions as per ASCE 41
 P-M2-M3 fiber hinges
 P-M2-M3 interaction hinges
Session-4
 User defined hinges (python application)
 Plastic hinge length of beam, column and shear walls.
 Pushover load case
 Understanding performance states (IO, LS and CP) with
the help of pushover analysis results.
 Performance evaluation using ASCE 41_DMM method.
 Performance evaluation using ATC 40_capacity
spectrum method (python application)
1. Seismic Hazard Assessment and Selection of Ground
Motions:
 Understanding of earthquake return periods.
 Construction of response spectrum for real ground
motions (manual solution, python application).
 Selection of ground motions using code based spectra
as target spectra.
Session-5
 Period range for scaling of ground motions.
 Spectral matching of ground motions: frequency
domain and time domain.
 Ground motion prediction equations (GMPE).
 Construction of conditional mean spectra (CMS).
 Selection of ground motions using CMS as target
spectra.
1. Cyclic degradation rules for time history analysis.
 Material level modelling.
 Member level modelling.
Session-6 2. Fundamentals of time history analysis.
 Understanding of the governing differential equation.
 Decoupling of mass, damping and stiffness matrix.
 Linear direct integration approach.
  Linear modal superposition approach.
 Nonlinear direct integration approach.
 Nonlinear modal superposition (FNA) approach.
 Importance of Ritz vectors.
3. Demonstration of TH analyses results.
1. Demonstration of uses of Linear Time History Analysis for
design.
 Linear direct integration approach.
 Linear modal superposition approach.
Session-7
2. Demonstration of Performance assessment using Nonlinear
Time History Analyses.
 Nonlinear direct integration approach.
 Nonlinear modal superposition (FNA) approach.
1. Back stay effect or Shear reversal: Effect of podium, effect
of podium + basement
2. Sensitivity Analysis: Lower bound and upper bound
modifiers.
3. Single tower with Basement and Podium
• Modelling of only the tower: Modal behavior, mass
participation, member response( Shear, bending).
• Modelling of tower and podium: Modal behavior,
mass participation, member response( Shear,
bending).
• Modelling of tower, podium and basement: Modal
behavior, mass participation, member response(
Shear, bending).
• Base Shear Correction: For the tower and podium,
for the basement
4. Multiple towers with Basement and Podium
• Modelling of only the tower: Modal behavior, mass
participation, member response( Shear, bending).
• Modelling of tower and podium: Modal behavior,
Session-8
mass participation, member response( Shear,
bending).
• Modelling of tower, podium and basement: Modal
behavior, mass participation, member response(
Shear, bending).
• Base Shear Correction: For the tower and podium,
for the basement
1. Introduction to direct displacement based design (DDBD).
Session-9 2. DDBD procedure for RC frame building.
3. DDBD procedure for RC shear wall building.
1. Summarizing the complete procedure of performance
based seismic design step by step.
 Material level modelling
 Section/member level modelling
Session-10  Structural modelling
 Linear elastic design
 Nonlinear modelling
 Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses
 Performance evaluation