Seismic Performance Assessment of a Multistorey Building Designed with an Alternative Capacity Design Approach

Table 1

Longitudinal rebars for beams and columns, as resulting from the seismic design for the two different approaches, i.e., single-q and variable-q.

Storey	Beams		Column
	Single-q	Variable-q	Single-q	Variable-q
1	6 + 6Ø20	5 + 5Ø20	20Ø20	20Ø16
2	6 + 6Ø20	7 + 7Ø22	20Ø20	20Ø22
3	6 + 6Ø20	7 + 7Ø22	20Ø20	20Ø22
4	6 + 6Ø20	7 + 7Ø22	20Ø20	20Ø22
5	6 + 6Ø20	6 + 6Ø22	20Ø20	20Ø22
6	3 + 3Ø20	4 + 4Ø22	20Ø20	20Ø22