TY - BOOK AU - Amer Abdulwahhab Hammadi Alnuaimi AU - Adel Yehia Akl , AU - Mohamed Ezzat Sobaih , TI - Innovative approaches to handle issues in performance-based seismic behaviour of multistory RC buildings / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amer Abdulwahhab Hammadi Alnuaimi , KW - Capacity spectrum method KW - PBSD KW - Pushover N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - The first aim of this study is to assess the performance objectives engaged in the Iraqi Seismic Code (ISC 1997) in order to make a realistic evaluation related to performance-based seismic design (PBSD) of multi-story reinforced concrete buildings and also to evaluate and compare the structural response demands obtained from nonlinear static analysis (NSA) procedures according to two versions of the capacity spectrum method (CSM) which are recommended in ATC 40 and ATC 55. The second aim is to present a simplified approach to handle the performance issues easily, by deriving the required factors to condensate the frame into an equivalent frame with a single bay model. This modeling will be called 2The Condensed Frame Approach (CFA) ER -