British Standards Institution

Source:: CEN
Committee:: B/525 - Building and civil engineering structures
Categories:: Information management | Standardization. General rules
Comment period start date:: 23/05/2025
Comment period end date:: 07/07/2025

Comment by:

7th Jul

Scope

Scope of EN 1998-5

(1) This document establishes general principles for the design and assessment of geotechnical systems in seismic regions. It gives general rules relevant to all families of geotechnical structures, to the design of foundations, retaining structures and underground structures and complements EN 1997-3 for the seismic design situation.

(2) This document contains the basic performance requirements and compliance criteria applicable to geotechnical structures and geotechnical systems in seismic regions.

(3) This document refers to the rules for the representation of seismic actions and the description of the seismic design situations defined in EN 1998-1-1 and provides specific definition of the seismic action applicable to geotechnical structures.

Purpose

This amendment intends to ensure the consistency between the different Eurocodes and within EN 1998 (all parts), as well as to introduce editorial and technical corrections identified during the FV stage of EN 1998-5

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1. Proposal

Proposal start date:

23/05/2025

Proposal end date:

07/07/2025

2. Draft

3. Public Comments

4. Comment Resolution

5. Approval

6. Publication

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New Work Item Proposal - EN 1998-5:2024/prA1 Eurocode 8 — Design of structures for earthquake resistance — Part 5: Geotechnical aspects, foundations, retaining and underground structures

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