Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 1H9 Canada;
Department of Structural Engineering University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA 92093 USA;
Department of Mathematics University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA 92093 USA;
Performance-based seismic design; optimum seismic design; forward PBEE analysis; inverse PBEE analysis; uncertainty quantification; hazard deaggregation;