Seismic Codes
Posted in Concepts, Seismic Codes on January 10th, 2007 Comments Off
Seismic codes are regulations which have been developed with the scope to provide a first guideline to the engineer for earthquake resistant design of ordinary buildings. Common standard response spectra like the US building code or the EC 8 (see Fig. 5) account in some way for the seismicity at or in the neighborhood of [...]