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Review paperUDC EC8: the new Italian seismic codeFilippo Santucci de MagistrisUniversity of Molise, Department; Structural and GeotechnicalDynamics Laboratory StreGa; Campobasso, ItalyReceived 11 December 2010, in final form 30 March 2011 The 2002 Molise earthquake, which was defined by seismologists as anormal event in the geodynamics of the Italian peninsula but had an interna-tional resonance due to the collapse of a primary school, triggered a series ofresearch initiatives in earthquake engineering and significant modificationsto building codes in Italy. The modifications were completed at the beginningof 2008 with the release of a new comprehensive building code for Italy. Thisdocument was mainly inspired by Eurocode, but it contains some changes this paper, comments are made on three specific parts of the newcode: definition of seismic action, analysis of liquefaction and analysis of slopestability.

Review paper UDC 550.360 Beyond EC8: the new Italian seismic code Filippo Santucci de Magistris University of Molise, S.A.V.A. Department; Structural and Geotechnical

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