European design methods for cold-formed steel
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A survey has been given of the framework of the Eurocodes. These codes should be regarded as the structural design codes for Europe starting in the 1990s. The safety concept of the codes is in the form of load and resistance factor design (LRFD). As far as it concerns the material steel (hot-rolled and cold-formed) the codes are largely based on ECCS documents. The hot-rolled steel has been treated in Eurocode 3, Part 1.1 and the Annexes to Part 1.1 and the cold-formed steel in the Eurocode 3, Part 1.3. In this paper the design rules for cold-formed steel and their eventual difference with the rules for hot-rolled steel are envisaged. Also the background document for the rules of cold-formed steel is reported. © 1993.
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TNO Identifier
280604
ISSN
02638231
Source
Thin-Walled Structures, 16(1-4), pp. 275-291.
Pages
275-291
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