Research Article

Enhanced Seismic Structural Reliability on Reinforced Concrete Buildings by Using Buckling Restrained Braces

Table 4

Comparison of the mean annual rate of exceedance (MARE) values for the RC and RC-BRB buildings for a MID value equal to 0.02.

RC buildingsMARE for MID = 0.02RC-BRB buildingsMARE for MID = 0.02

RC30.00072RC3-BRB0.000084
RC60.00046RC6-BRB0.000024
RC90.00019RC9-BRB0.0000024