Eurocode 8: Design provisions for earthquake resistance of structures - Part 4: Silos, tanks and pipelines

(1)P This Prestandard aims at providing principles and application rules for the seismic design of the structural aspects of integrated facilities composed of pipeline systems and of storage tanks of different types and destinations, as well as for independent items, such as for example single water towers, serving a specific purpose or groupes of silos enclosing granualr materials,etc.This Prestandard may also be used as a basis for evaluating the amount of strengthening needed by existing facilities to bring them up to present standards.