Design of reinforced concrete buildings for seismic performance : practical deterministic and probabilistic approaches Seismology and site effects Dynamics of linear elastic SDOF oscillators Dynamics of nonlinear SDOF oscillators Dynamics of linear and nonlinear MDOF systems Characterization of dynamic response using principal components analysis Equivalent SDOF systems and nonlinear static (pushover) analysis Principles of earthquake resistant design Stability of the yield displacement Performance based seismic design Plastic mechanism analysis Proportioning of earthquake resistant structural systems Probabilistic considerations System modeling and analysis considerations Component proportioning and design based on ACI 318 Component proportioning and design requirements according to Eurocodes 2 and 8 Component modeling and acceptance criteria Design methods Design examples.