ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the procedure on the evaluation of the masonry chapter for the next generation of Eurocode 8, the European Standard for earthquake-resistant design. The aim is to elaborate suggestions for amendments which fit the current state of the art in masonry and earthquake-resistant design. As support for the broad field of masonry and seismic engineering, working group WG1 has been formed under CEN TC250/SC8 to support the Project Teams in this field. Since the late 1970s nonlinear static analysis has been used in seismic assessment and design of masonry structures. A suitable procedure for converting the pushover curve into a bilinear capacity curve for an equivalent single-degree-of-freedom system needs to be specifically defined for the case of masonry structures. Spatial building models based on the equivalent frame approach will be probably considered as the reference models for the analysis of masonry buildings.
