Ground motions for performance-based earthquake engineering -- Mapping Seismic Hazard for the Needs of Displacement-Based Design: The Case of Italy -- Some Examples of 1D, Fully Stochastic Site Response Analyses of Soil Deposits -- Evaluation of the Coherence of Strong Ground Motions Using Wavelet Analysis -- Real, Scaled, Adjusted and Artificial Records: A Displacement and Cyclic Response Assessment -- Theoretical Consistency of Common Record Selection Strategies in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering -- Long-Period Earthquake Ground Motion: Recent Advances and Observations from the April 6 2009, Mw6.3 L'Aquila Earthquake, Italy -- Uncertainty in Nonlinear SDoF Response Due to Long-Period Noise of Accelerograms -- Are Current Design Spectra Sufficient for Soil-Structure Systems on Soft Soils? -- Elastic Demand Spectra -- Performance-based seismic design and retrofitting - Methodolo-gies -- A Dynamic Macro-Element for Performance-Based Design of Foundations -- New Concept on Fail-Safe Design of Foundation Structure Systems Insensitive to Extreme Motions -- Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the Western United States -- to a Model Code for Displacement-Based Seismic Design -- A Performance-Based Seismic Design Procedure for 3D R/C Buildings, Explicitly Accounting for Deformation Control -- A New Seismic Design Method for Steel Structures -- Significance of Modeling Deterioration in Structural Components for Predicting the Collapse Potential of Structures Under Earthquake Excitations -- Enhanced Building-Specific Seismic Performance Assessment -- A Damage Spectrum for Performance-Based Design -- Construction of Response Spectra for Inelastic Asymmetric-Plan Structures -- Multi-Mode Pushover Analysis with Generalized Force Vectors -- A Practice-Oriented Approach for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment of Building Structures -- Direct Probability-Based Seismic Design of RC Buildings -- Probabilistic Models for Visual Damage -- Performance-based seismic design and retrofitting - Implementation -- Dual Flexural Plastic Hinge Design for Reducing Higher-Mode Effects on High-Rise Cantilever Wall Buildings -- High Seismic Performance Systems for Steel Structures -- Performance-Based Seismic Design and Experimental Evaluation of Steel MRFs with Compressed Elastomer Dampers -- Performance-Based Design of Self-Centering Steel Frame Systems -- Damage-Control Self-Centering Structures: From Laboratory Testing to On-site Applications -- Seismic Design of Plane Steel Frames Using Modal Strength Reduction (Behaviour) Factors -- Recent Advances in Seismic Isolation: Methods and Tools -- Modal Analysis of Isolated Bridges with Transverse Restraints at the End Abutments -- Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Seismic Risk Mitigation in Existing Non-ductile Concrete Buildings -- Seismic Retrofit of Non-ductile Reinforced Concrete Frames Using Infill Walls as a Rocking Spine -- Deformation Capacity of Lightly Reinforced Concrete Members - Comparative Evaluation -- The Effect of Displacement History on the Performance of Concrete Columns in Flexure -- Innovative Seismic Retrofitting of RC Columns Using Advanced Composites -- Optimum Partial Strengthening for Improved Seismic Performance of Old Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Open Ground Story -- Advanced seismic testing for performance-based earthquake en-gineering -- Role and Application of Testing and Computational Techniques in Seismic Engineering -- Reliability Assessment in Pseudo-Dynamic and Dynamic Tests -- Dynamic Interaction Between the Shaking Table and the Specimen During Seismic Tests -- Frameworks for Internet Online Hybrid Test -- Large Scale Seismic Testing of Steel-Framed Structures at NCREE -- Large Scale Shaking Table Tests for High-Rise Buildings: New Projects of E-Defense -- Verification Through Shaking Table Testing of EC8-Based Assessment Approaches Applied to a Building Designed for Gravity-Loads.