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Designers' Guide to EN 1998-1 and EN 1998-5
Designers' Guide to EN 19981 and EN 19985 Author:Eduardo Carvalho, Amr Elnashai, Ezio Faccioli, Paulo Pinto and Andre Plumier (editors) Michael Fardis 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 guid... more »es work in conjunction with the Designersâ?? Guide to EN1990 Eurocode: Basis of Structural Design. All aspects of seismic design are covered in Designersâ?? 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 specificmaterials (EN 1992 â?? 1996) or geographical design (EN 1997). This was for the convenience of countries with very low seismicity, as theymay not need to apply Eurocode 8 at all. The development of Eurocode 8 as the single seismic design code in Europe has been the focus of the European earthquake engineering community in the past twenty years. Its emergence as the European Standard is important not only for public safety in seismic southern regions of Europe, but also for competitiveness of the entire European consultancy and engineering services sector in seismic regions in Europe and beyond.« less