The presence of the link beam, created by offsetting the point of action of the braces that frame into a beam, is primarily responsible for both the high stiffness of the frame and the good ductility characteristics. For this reason, the proper modeling of the link beam behavior is important in EBF modeling. In the commonly used modeling of the link beam, at the location of the plastic hinge formation, two flexural and shear hinges are modeled simultaneously. In this method, in the case of shear behavior in the link beam, there is no rotation on both sides of the hinge. Therefore, it is not possible to model the generalized behavior of the beam and evaluate its performance in accordance with the FEMA 356. In this paper, a new method for modeling the behavior of the link beam is presented. According to this method, only a flexural hinge is modeled at the location of the plastic hinge formation and its behavior is determined to be equivalent to the behavior of the link beam. In addition to providing a new link beam modeling method, the process of calculating the target displacement for each performance level is described in this paper. OpenSees software was used to model nonlinear static analysis. Finally, to verifying the process of calculating the target displacement for each performance level and the proposed modeling method, the results of nonlinear static analysis of a two-dimensional steel EBF are presented.