N° 165. 1985. CEB Model Code for Seismic Design of Concrete Structures
When Prof. Paolo E. Pinto, Rome, the Chairman of CEB General Task Group on Seismic Design, was so kind as to invite me to preface this volume, 1 recalled once again the particular ltalian contributions towards the realization of this long-term CEB project: the chairmanship, the calibration examples and the financing of this publication. For all this, CEB feels indebted to our italian colleagues- although they may tell somehow guilty for earthquakes being still produced all over the world by the giant Enceladus buried underneath the italian Mount Etna.
Synthesis of research results into practical documents being the vocation of CEB, its activities could not be limited to normal situations only. Design versus accidental actions (fire, impact and earthquake) is also covered by more recent CEB endeavours. More specifically regarding seismic design, three preliminary editions of the present document (CEB Bulletins n. 133, 149 and 160) during the last five years, indicate the continuous efforts of CEB in this field since the inspiring initiative of Prof. Julio Ferry Borges 1979.
This document has now reached its maturity: it has been repeatedly checked, it has been proved to be operative by several worked-out examples and, to a large extent, it is performance oriented;_ thus, the CEB General Assembly (Prague, 1983) after some final amendments, has granted to this document the status of a "Model Code".
lt is hoped that the CEB Seismic Model Code, a product of long international collaboration, having also partly contributed to the drafting of the Eurocode EC 8, will further serve the professional community of Structural Engineering world-wide.
Prof. Theodosios P. Tassios
President CEB
