Comparison of the seismic design of the structures according to HRP and EC8

The investigation contributed to the evaluation and adoption of the EC8 codes that would eventually contribute to design of safer and more economical structures. The areas of seismic design that are not so precisely defined, such as reliability-based design, were determined and parameters for the nonlinear seismic analysis were analyzed and set. Further areas of research are determined and would probably consist a part of some future publication.