Faccioli Ezio, Fardis Michael N., Alnashai Amr S., Carvalho Eduardo, Plumier Andre, Pinto Paolo, Gulvanessian Haig
Designers' Guide to Eurocode 8: Design of buildings for earthquake resistance
General rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings, foundations, retaining structures and geotechnical aspects. EN 1998-1 and -5
Editura: ICE Publishing
Anul aparitiei: 2005
This series of Designers Guides to the Eurocodes provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples. The books also include background information to aid the designer in understanding the reasoning behind and the objectives of the codes. All of the individual guides work in conjunction with the Designers' Guide to EN1990 Eurocode: Basis of Structural Design. All aspects of seismic design are covered in Designers' Guide to EN 1998-1 and 1998-5 Eurocode 8: Design provisions for earthquake resistant structures. General rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings, instead of being distributed across the Eurocodes on actions (EN 1991), design with specific materials (EN 1992 - 1996) or geographical design (EN 1997). This was for the convenience of countries with very low seismicity, as they may not need to apply Eurocode 8 at all. This present Designers' Guide covers EN1998-1 (General Rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings) and EN1998-5 (Foundations, retaining structures, geotechnical aspects), both published by CEN at the end of 2004. These two parts of Eurocode 8 will be included, as service ...