Overview of SERA Project: 3D shaking table tests on an integrated low-damage building system
Targeting life-safety is arguably not enough for our modern society and communities. The performance-based design objectives need a paradigm shift towards a low-damage design philosophy with the final goal of developing a cost-affordable high-performance building system, including structural and non-structural elements, services and soil foundation systems, capable of sustaining a design level earthquake with limited damage, controllable socio-economic losses and minimum disruption of business.