Introduction — why plastic design; Material nonlinearity; Moment-curvature behaviour; Plastic hinge; Axial loading
Elastic-plastic analysis; Unit incremental load method; Upper bound and lower bound theorems; Mechanism method
Plastic design considerations; LRFD; Instability; Combined axial load and bending
Introduction to seismic design concepts; Role of ductility; Lateral load resisting systems; Static pushover analysis; Inelastic time-history analysis and IDA; Performance-based seismic design

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