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EUROPEAN CONVENTION FOR CONSTRUCTIONAL STEELWORK CONVENTION EUROPEENNE DE | ACONSTAUG TION METALLIQUE EUROPAISCHE KONVENTION FUR STAHLBAU ECCS - Advisory Committee'5 Application of Eurocode 3 Examples to Eurocode 3 FIRST EDITION 1993 eccs THM) cunorean convention Fon CONSTRUCTIONAL STEELWORK CECM | CONVENTION EUROPEENNE DE LA CONSTRUCTION METALLIQUE EKS EUROPAISCHE KONVENTION FUR STAHLBAU ECCS - Advisory Committee 5 Application of Eurocode 3 Examples to Eurocode 3 FIRST EDITION 1993 Nev71 Introduction ‘The European Convention for Structural Steelwork (ECCS) has as one of its primary objectives the promotion of the safe and economical use of steel in structures. ECCS believes that the introduction of the harmonized Eurocodes has a great value in achieving this objective; accordingly ECCS has set up an ‘Advisory Committee, AC 5, charged with the task of promoting the introduction and adoption of the Eurocodes. ‘The AC 5 Committee have considered how this process could be best achieved and concluded that a three stage approach was desirable. The first stage was to produce a concise version of the Eurocodes ‘which can be used for normal every day design; this part has already been issued as ECCS Publication No. 65, ‘The second stage is the production of this document which gives design examples to EC 3/1 and E-EC 3 and has been prepared as a design aid to facilitate the use of EC 3/1 for the design of stee! buildings

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