  This paper presents a framework for decision-making regarding post-earthquake
assessment of instrumented buildings in a manner consistent with
performance-based design criteria. This framework is achieved by simultaneously
combining and advancing existing knowledge from seismic structural health
monitoring and performance-based earthquake engineering paradigms and consists
of 1) optimal sensor placement, 2) dynamic response reconstruction, 3) damage
estimation, and 4) performance-assessment and decision-making. In particular,
the main objective is to reconstruct inter-story drifts with a probabilistic
measure of exceeding performance-based acceptance limits and determining the
post-earthquake re-occupancy classification of the instrumented building of
interest. Since the proposed framework is probabilistic, the outcome can be
used to obtain the probability of losses based on the defined decision
variables and be integrated into a risk-based decision-making process by city
officials, building owners, and emergency managers. The framework is
illustrated using data from the Van Nuys hotel testbed, a seven-story
reinforced concrete building instrumented by the California Strong Motion
Instrumentation Program (Station 24386).
