Earthquake Resistant Buildings

In order to compose or/and comprehend the detailing the technician of the work, the archi-

tect, the civil engineer, the supervisor engineer, the contractor, the foreman or the technician

must know the common communication ‘language’ of all his/her collaborators in combination

with an -least good- knowledge of the constructional issues. The dissemination of the

knowledge and the language is to the benefit of all materialization bodies since the inexperi-

enced will learn and therefore communicate more effectively with the experienced ones

while the latter will ensure the materialization of structures without problems and dangers.

The collective work is the only way to increase the constructional level and this is the aim of

the present book.

The constructional rules followed are almost in perfect compliance with all the antiseismic

codes of the world e.g. Εurocodes(EC2 and EC8), ACI codes, New Zealand codes, Greek

codes, as well as with all the relevant regulations of other seismic prone countries.

All the drawings and solutions in the examples of the book are clearly indicative and include

only a fraction of the numerous existing solutions. Their possible high quality presentation

should not mislead anyone to believe that they constitute the only solution.

Volume A’ intends to present the entire general concept of the detailing without extended

details and therefore the drawings that accompany this book are indicative and concise.

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