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
1993eccs 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 Nev71Introduction
‘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