Yield displacement charts for performance‑based seismic design Hernández Montes, Enrique Jalón Ramírez, María Lourdes Chiachío Ruano, Juan Gil Martín, Luisa María Performance-based design Yield displacement Yield frequency spectra Preliminary design A new tool for seismic design is presented, called Yield Displacement Charts (YDC). As with its predecessors, the Yield Point Spectra (YPS) and the Yield Frequency Spectra (YFS), the YDC concept takes advantage of the simple features of yield displacement (uy), to use uy in a performance-based design instead of a force-based period-dependent approach. A self-contained and comprehensive approach to YPS and YFS is presented, enabling the novel aspect of YDC to be introduced: a tool for a multi-performance objective design that only depends on the location of the structure to be designed. Once the yield displacement chart has been calculated for a particular place, it can be used for the preliminary design of any structure. For a given value of yield displacement, the YFS are obtained from the Yield Displacement Chart. The suitability of the methodology proposed is illustrated by means of a simple case study of a concrete bridge pier. 2022-11-04T10:46:52Z 2022-11-04T10:46:52Z 2022-10-17 journal article Hernández-Montes, E... [et al.]. Yield displacement charts for performance-based seismic design. Bull Earthquake Eng (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-022-01534-5] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/77747 10.1007/s10518-022-01534-5 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/821054 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Springer