Chapter Overview Of Seismic Design Of Highway Bridges In – The United States – Introduction – Aashto Bridge Seismic Design Philosophy – Aasho Elastic Design Procedures (–) – Aashto Forcebased Design Procedures – Aashto Forcebased Design Procedures – Forcereduction Rfactor – Capacity Design Concept – Aashto Guide Specifications For Lrfd – Seismic Bridge Design () – Nonlinear Pushover Analysis Procedure – Direct Displacementbased Design Procedures – Chapter Pushover Analysis Applications – Displacement Capacity Evaluation For The Seismic – Design Of New Bridges – Performance Level Verification For New Bridges – Designed By Ddbd – Capacity/Demand Ratios For The Seismic Evaluation Of – Existing Bridges – Quantitative Bridge System Redundancy Evaluation – Moment–Curvature Curves And Axial Load–Moment – Interaction Curves – Other Applications – Chapter Nonlinear Pushover Analysis Procedure – Introduction – Sol—Elastic Static Analysis – Sol—Nonlinear Static Pushover (Cyclic Or – Monotonic) Analysis – Flowchart In Sol – Nonlinear Pushover Procedure – Material Library – Elastic D Prismatic Beam Material (Dbeam) – Bilinear Hysteresis Model (Bilinear) – Gap/Restrainer Model (Gap) – Takeda Hysteresis Model (Takeda) – Bilinear Momentrotation Model (Hinge) – Bilinear Hysteresis Model (Ia_Biln) – Finitesegment Steel Stress–Strain Hysteresis – Model (Stability) – Finitesegment Reinforced Concrete .