According Performance-Based Seismic Design Code for Buildings in Japan - authors: Mistumasa Midorikawa 1) Izuru Okawa1) Masanori Iiba1) Masaomi Teshigawara 1) 1) Building Research Institute, 1 Tachihara, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0802, Japan:
The limit state of damage limitation is attained when the working stress increases to the allowable stress of materials in any member or when the story drift reaches 1/200 of the story height at any story.