Contents

This section develops some aspects of interest to those who are required to perform a sesmic analysis activity in the fields of buildings and industrial plants. The approach followed is similar to the one adopted in the other section of this web-site: provide a comparison of the international code requirements, point out the differences and the validity limits, trying to follow a rigorous approach, on the standpoint of the definitions and the concepts, rather than mathematically.

The section plan considers the following subjects:  

• Codes and standards
• Glossary
• Seismic scales
• Seismic analysis methods
• Seismic effects combination
• Practical cases
• Web-sites
• References