1.1 Scope of EN 1998-1-1




(1) This document is applicable to the design and verification of buildings and other structures for earthquake resistance. It gives general rules relevant to all types of structures, except for structures belonging to consequence classes CC0 or CC4.




NOTE For further details on consequence class CC4, see 4.2.




(2) This document provides basic performance requirements and compliance criteria applicable to buildings and other structures for earthquake resistance.




(3) This document gives rules for the representation of seismic actions and the description of the design seismic situations.




NOTE Certain types of structures, dealt with in other parts of Eurocode 8, need supplementary rules which are given in those relevant Parts.




(4) This document contains general methods for structural analysis and verification under seismic actions, including base-isolated structures and structures with distributed dissipative systems.




(5) This document contains rules for modelling and verification of ultimate strengths and deformations.