ATC 58 Performance Assessment

Calculation Tool (PACT)

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What is PACT?
PACT is intended to be an open-source,
engineer-friendly, software system coded
entirely in VB 6.0 and Fortran.
It is a small part of a very large effort
(ATC-58)
PACT is an implementation of the PEER
PBEE methodology
Probability of
Death
Dollars
Downtime

Only this one at this time

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What Goes Into PACT?

PACT gathers and stores very Basic Building Information

To the extent needed to define

basic proportions (plan dimensions, story heights, perimeter length)

Structural system
Nonstructural systems and components
Contents

User specified correlation of damage for performance groups

(currently binary)
Extent of other information needed is a function of users expertise
Basic Assessment (very little, if any)
Modification of default quantities

Enhanced Assessment (from little to extensive)

Specification of detailed quantities and repair costs
Adding new and modifying existing performance groups and fragility functions

Engineering Demand Parameters

Estimates of story drifts and accelerations at each floor
(H-Dir-1, H-Dir-2, and Non-directional)

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Performance Group Damage

States and Fragilities

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Correlation of Damage

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What does PACT do with this

information?

PACT takes the basic building information provided and,

a set of engineering demand parameters for the building (say results of
5, 10 or 20 nonlinear dynamic response analyses for a given scenario
or hazard level, PACT gathers and stores very Basic Building
Information and,
It performs simulations using Cholesky Decomposition to generate
100s of realizations
Based on these realizations, PACT generates probability of loss curves
for the entire building, a particular floor, a particular direction, or a single
component.
Results are presented in a uniform fashion across various levels of
generalization and can be saved and exported to Excel, text files, and
various graphic formats.
PACT is an XML based product and all of the input, intermediate, and
output data is preserved in a hierarchical format that can be retrieved,
modified, and enhanced at any time.

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Performance Group Damage

States and Fragilities

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Correlation of Damage

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Let us take a look at it!

Viewer Discretion Is Advised

PACT is a product still under development and every thing about it changes
several times everyday.
What I show you is basically the Enhanced Assessment Option. I comment on
where and how the Basic Assessment Option would be different
For complete legal jargon, see me after this session.
We have the informed consent of the audience. Proceed!

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A demonstration of PACT as is
now

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PACT Analysis Types

Intensity-based assessments
what are the chances of losses of given amount, if
the building is subjected to ground motion of
specific intensity?

Scenario-based assessments
what are the chances of experiencing more than
$10M damage from a M6 on the San Andreas
Fault?

Time-based assessment
what are the chances of losses exceeding a given
amount, over a given time period?
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Time-based Assessment
You already saw
how intensity and
scenario based
assessments are
done.
For time-based
assessment, the
user is asked to
upload or enter a
hazard curve.
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Time-based Assessment
Then the user is asked to
associate a set of previous
runs with particular points
on the hazard curve.
PACT then performs
integrations generating a
loss surface and
annualized loss curves.
Annualized loss curves
may be combined and
manipulated exactly as
other loss curves.

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Thank you.

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