The Next Step for AFPA/ASCE 16-95: Performance-Based Design of Wood Structures

摘要

The current status of PBD for earthquakes, wind, snow, durability (moisture and insects), and flood has been summarized herein. Some examples of research, completed, ongoing, or needed, have been provided. In order for AFPA/ASCE 16-95 to move to a performance-based standard, two specific events should be put in motion. First, the current ASCE 16-95 committee should finalize the standard. Second, the committee should be reinstated/ reinvented to begin development of the performance-based standard for wood construction. The current ASCE/SEI Committee on the Reliability-based Design of Wood Structures served ASCE 16-95 in their development of the standard and can continue to serve during the development of the performance-based standard, either under a different or the same name. The expectations and choices within the document can be articulated by the committee, but a large body of research will be needed to provide numerical models and correlations between damage descriptors from those models and realistic building performance.