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PREFACE:

The goal of the book is to present and explain the state of the art of design or retrofitting concrete buildings for earthquake resistance.

 To serve this goal, it also covers behaviour of concrete members under cyclic loading and seismic response of concrete buildings, as well as their modelling. Its main focus is the European Design Standard EN1998 – Eurocode 8: 

Design of structures for earthquake resistance, and in particular its Parts 1 and 3, dealing with seismic design of new buildings and with assessment and retrofitting of existing ones, respectively. 

The book is addressed to practitioners of seismic design, assessment and retrofitting, to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in structural earthquake engineering and to researchers with interests in the field of earthquake resistant concrete structures. 

Certain familiarity of the reader with design of structural concrete and with structural analysis – including seismic analysis and structural dynamics – is presumed. The book has been written in the course of my teaching activity for the MSc Degree in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (MEEES), granted jointly by the Universities of Pavia and Patras and the J. Fourier University of Grenoble in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Commission. It has drawn from my involvement in the development of Eurocode 8 as a European Design Standard, and of its Parts 1 and 3 in particular. 

It has also drawn from my research at the University of Patras during the past 25 years and in particular from the joint work with my former doctoral students Dionysis E. Biskinis, Antonis J. Kosmopoulos and Telemachos B. Panagiotakos and my current colleague Stathis N. Bousias – as evident from the referencing throughout the book. I would also like to express my gratitude and appreciation to Eduardo C. Carvalho and Amr S. Elnashai for their very meticulous review and their comments for the book.

The book is devoted to the seismic design of new buildings as well as to the assessment and retrofit of existing buildings, covering essentially the contents of Parts 1 and 3 of Eurocode 8. It must be stressed that its contents which refers to Assessment and Retrofit is a very important support tool to the application of Part 3 of Eurocode 8 which deals with Assessment and Retrofitting of Buildings and which in itself is a quite innovative document.

 The book is organised in six chapters dealing sequentially with: the General Principles of Seismic Design; the Conceptual Design of Concrete Buildings for Earthquake Resistance; the Behaviour of Concrete Members under Cyclic Loading; the Analysis and Modelling for Seismic Design; the Detailing and Dimensioning and finally the Seismic Assessment and Retrofitting. 

Summing up, the book is extremely valuable and represents a much updated state of the art in seismic design of concrete structures not only in Europe but also in other parts of the world. It is very carefully written with the clear intent to cover all aspects of seismic design and not leaving behind any aspect relevant for such.

 It shall be very useful and an authoritative source for the understanding and application of Eurocode 8 at several different levels, from the ordinary practitioner to the knowledgeable researcher passing by the software developer. 

The book reflects the very solid knowledge of the author in earthquake engineering and his leading role in the recent developments of Eurocode 8, as well as the extreme care that was devoted to its planning and writing. No doubt, it shall become a reference in the field.