Commentary and Worked Examples to EN 1993-1-1





Acknowledgements

This report with a commentary and worked examples to the design rules in EN 1993-1-10 and other toughness oriented-rules in EN 1993 has been prepared on the basis of numerous sources: - working papers worked out for the project teams for the preparation of the ENV-

version and EN-version of Eurocode 3 with funding by the ECCS, - reports from research projects funded by the European Community for Steel and

Coal (ECSC) and the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS), - reports from research projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

(DFG), and Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschung (AIF), - various doctoral thesis' and a habilitation thesis mentioned in the bibliography that

were prepared in particular at the Institute of Steel Construction and the Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy at RWTH Aachen,

- results of expertises for practical applications of the methods mentioned in the

bibliography, - numerous discussions in particular with Mr. Sanz, Mr. Wallin, Prof. Dahl, Prof.

Burdekin and with members of the project teams, in particular J. Brozzetti, J. Raoul, J.B. Schleich and R. Pope, who helped in this interdisciplinary field to develop rules of good practice.

All these valuable contributions from pre-normative and co-normative research aiming at laying the basis of the toughness ortiented rules in Eurocode 3 are gratefully acknowledged. The preparation of the manuscript of this report was in the hands of D. Tschickardt, B. Kühn and C. Müller. Prof. M. Feldmann, Prof. W. Dahl, P. Langenberg and Prof. N. Stranghöner gave useful contributions. Prof. F. Bijlaard helped in the proofreading

of the text. Thanks to all of them

for the valuable works

and contributions.


Aachen,
September 2008

Gerhard
Sedlacek

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