考慮到近年來颱風所造成的巨大災害，為了保護人民生命財產和降低損失至大眾可接受的程度，除了人命安全之安全性能水準須確保於容許程度內，另一方面可由經濟和風險之考量，因此，為了在合理成本的情況下，達到令人滿意的結構性能，必須仔細考量建築物生命週期成本。
本研究考慮建築結構頂層總加速度與外部玻璃兩個極限狀態；其中以隨機過程和隨機變數模擬載重和抵抗力之不確定性；隨機變數之不確定性包含與生俱來與知識不足之不確定性。成本部分考慮初始成本與損失成本(維修成本、經濟損失與人員傷亡成本)，此外亦將不同時間點之成本折現至相同時間點以便比較。
本研究考量工程上的不確定性，結合可靠度評估和生命週期成本，建立一套生命週期成本的分析流程與架構。

In view of the large damage suffered in recent typhoons, in order to protect life and reduce damage and loss to an acceptable level, satisfactory performance at a reasonable cost, the building life-cycle cost need to be carefully considered.
The structural limit states are response acceleration at top of building and windows of building. The major considerations in a lifecycle cost analysis are proper treatment of uncertainties in the demand and capacity and costs incurred due to unsatisfactory performance. The uncertainties in the loads and resistance are modeled by random processed and random variables. In considering uncertainties, it is important to recognize two broad types, the aleatory type and epistemic type. Costs of construction, consequences of structural limit states including damage, revenue loss, death and injury as well as discounting cost over time are considered.
A method is proposed for modeling the uncertainties and evaluation of the expected life-cycle cost of an engineering system under a hazard.

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