Development topic EN 1993 - steel beams

Assignee Milos Jovanovic

Finish date 10-Mar-23

Notes and subtopics

 Steel beam EC3

o Initial sizing
o Span/depth ratio
o Cross section classification
o Slenderness, stress limitations
o Elastic vs plastic design
o Flowcharts
o Design checks -> RFEM
o Manual verification

Note: Model a simple steel frame in RFEM. Test the steel design for the beam (laterally restrained points, buckling
lengths, buckling moment). Test how software designs beams when instead of one beam in between two columns
we model two or more beams (basically cutting the one beam into a number of shorter beams)

Literature:

en.1993.1.1.2005

Design of steel structures EC3-1-1