09 September 2017 3 7K Report

Dear all:

Since reliability analysis also can provide a failure probability (We can take it as the probability that a structure reachs a performance level), seems the hazard analysis and fragility analysis in 4 steps of PBED(Performance based earthquake design) can be replaced by only using reliability analysis.

What do you think about this? If so, why hazard analysis and fragility analysis are necessary steps in PBED?

Thank you all in advance!

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