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Stephanie, Another use of performance-based design is for fire. For many structures, this approach can be very advantageous compared to prescriptive design for fire resistance.​ To answer your first question, however, the vast majority of buildings will still be designed using conventional approaches ...

​I concur with Kelly that the most likely cause for the edge spalling is curling of the slab. If the slab is curling, grinding the slab along the edge would be appropriate. If the curling is significant, I would also recommend injecting grout under the slab along the joint to fill the voids that would ...

​Ramses You are correct that near fault effects are included in the site-specific hazard data that you get from the maps or from the USGS web application. I can't point to a specific reference that confirms that, but I work in the San Francisco Bay Area where we have two major nearby faults and we do ...