
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Future development of the European seismic code, Eurocode 8
E.D. Booth
Edmund Booth Consulting Engineer, Tring, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT: Publicationof the ten structural Eurocodes during the first decade of the 21st century represented
one of the most ambitious projects of European collaboration in structural engineering. Eurocode 8 – design of
structures for earthquake resistance – was published in 2004, and its six parts gave it a scope which exceeded
any other seismic code anywhere in the world; ...