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To study the seismic response of structure with the polyvinyl alcohol fiber-reinforced concrete (PVA-FRC) in the critical locations of members, the typical model of a ten-story frame-shear wall structure was created using the program Perform-31). Structural nonlinear dynamic history response analysis was performed under rare earthquake with 2% probability of exceedance in 50 years, which was motivated under single-directional ground motions. The result shows that FRC can improve the seismic behavior of the model structure better as the increase of earthquake damage state. The response spectral acceleration at the fundamental period Sa(T1) is suited to be ground motion intensity measure. According to the proposed incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method proposed by FEMA P695, the selected twenty-two pairs of ground motion records were normalized and scaled. The structural failure probability under different ground motion intensity levels is obtained based on the seismic fragility function, which is on the limit-state of collapse prevention (CP). I he plastic hinge rotation of wrall is proposed for use as structural response parameter of seismic fragility analysis on the limit-state of collapse prevention for the structural system of frame-shear wall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]