European Recommendations for the Design of Simple Joints in Steel Structures
Nº126, 2009
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This document intends to provide European recommendations for the design of simple joints in steel structures.
Eurocode 3 Part 1-8 “Design of Connections” gives precise guidelines for the design of structural joints aimed at transferring bending moments. But for simple joints, information is only provided in Eurocode 3 for some specific failure modes. The way on how internal forces distribute amongst the various components within the joints is also not explicitly described.
The present publication fills this gap by proposing practical guidelines for the design of simple joints commonly used in Europe. The design rules presented in this document are in full agreement with the principles of Eurocode 3, and in particular of Eurocode 3 Part 1-8.
This document has been prepared at Liège University, editorially checked by Prof. D. Anderson from Warwick University and approved by the Technical Committee TC10.

Authors: J.P. Jaspart, J.F. Demonceau, S. Renkin, M.L. Guillaume
Written in English, 90 pages.
Price 25 €

Preliminary European Recommendations for the Testing and Design of Fastenings for Sandwich Panels
Nº127, 2009
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The European product standard for sandwich panels, EN 14509, covers the requirements and verification methods for the essential properties of factory made sandwich panel products. Fastenings are typically made at a building site outside the factory. Thus, fastenings are not a subject for a European product standard. The European Recommendations, CIB Publication No. 257 and ECCS Publication No. 115, published in 2000 and 2001, give loading arrangements and procedures with which to determine the tensile and shear resistance of both direct and concealed fastenings. These new recommendations update the previously published procedures for fastenings and extend the concept to include also fastenings fixed in a face layer.
The sources of information taken into account in the writing of these recommendations have included the previously published recommendations, relevant new research results and the current practice with regard to the available screw fastenings and concealed fastenings. The resulting recommendations are believed to be particularly applicable to the typical metal sheet-faced sandwich panels with cores of polyurethane or polystyrene foam or mineral wool which are on the market today. However, the rules and methods can be applied to other and new types of fastenings and sandwich panel products. When applying these recommendations, the user shall take into account the mechanical behaviour of the fastening in practice and shall take care to ensure the correspondence of the observed behaviour and resistance of the fastening in the tests and the actual behaviour in practice.

Written in English, 64 pages.
Price 17 €

EuroSteel 2008

ISBN 92-0147-000-90
Publisher ECCS
Year 2008
2 Volumes, Written in English, 1902 pages.
Price 95€
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Eurosteel 2008 was jointly organized by the three universities, the Graz University of Technology (Austria), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), which comprise an area of similar historical and cultural background in the southern part of Central Europe.

Eurosteel 2008 was the 5th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures, presenting a European forum for both researchers and practitioners in this field. 313 papers from 40 countries demonstrate the success of the original idea and the progress made through the four preceding conferences.
The proceedings of the conference Eurosteel 2008 give a picture of the state of the art of steel and composite structures worldwide. They comprise contributions from the field of “practice-research-new materials”. All papers were reviewed by a scientific committee of international experts.

Buckling of Steel Shells - European Design Recommendations
Nº125, 5th edition, 2008

Editors: John Michael Rotter and Herbert Schmidt, TC8 - Stability (TWG 8.4)
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This document is the 5th Edition of the ECCS European Recommendations for the Buckling of Steel Shells. It is the successor to the 4th Edition, published in 1988, which was very different in style, format and content, though some of the regulatory requirements of the 4th Edition are here retained in the 5th Edition. In the 20 years since the publication of the 4th Edition in 1988, much has changed in the field of metal shell buckling. Extensive research has been undertaken, much new knowledge has been developed, and powerful computational modelling has transformed the field, though much design is still conducted by hand calculation. These changes are reflected in this 5th Edition.
The 5th Edition quotes extensively from the Eurocode EN 1993-1-6 (2007) and is completely compatible with that standard.
However, the Eurocode has no commentary, so the meaning, limitations and origins of many rules are not always clear. This 5th Edition provides an extensive commentary on the existing rules relating to buckling in the Eurocode, but extends far beyond it in giving recommendations, expansions, advice and warnings, explanations and examples, all of which should give the user< considerably more insight and confidence in applying the rules of EN 1993-1-6.
Structure of the document This 5th Edition is divided into two parts. Part I sets out the basic information and general procedures required to undertake all shell buckling calculations according to EN 1993-1-6. It describes the methodology and conceptual principles for numerical analysis, either to derive the basic data that can be used in a straightforward buckling design by hand calculation, or to replace parts of this calculation with numerical assessments, or to carry out a buckling design that is completely based on numerical assessment.
Part II sets out the detailed information for hand calculation procedures when a shell of a particular geometry is being designed for a particular loading condition. Many well-proven engineering formulas, empirical data and simplified rules extracted from numerical parametric studies have been included in this part. In particular, Part II contains radically updated versions of the rules set out in the 4th Edition of the ECCS Recommendations.

Analysis and Design of Plated Structures
(Volume 1: Stability)
N E Shanmugam and C M Wang

Description: Analysis and Design of Plated
Structures:
- discusses the behaviour of steel and other plated structures when under stress;
- extensive coverage of the key research in this important area;
- compiled by an international team of distinguished contributors.
Steel and other types of plated structures are used in a variety of applications from aircrafts to ships and offshore platforms to bridges, power plants and cranes. A key issue in the use of these structures is their stability behaviour under compressive stress. Analysis and design of plated structures reviews the wealth of research in this important area and its implications for design, safety and maintenance.
The book considers the various types of buckling that plated structures are likely to encounter.
Chapters also review buckling in a range of materials from steel to differing types of composite. The book also discusses the behaviour of differing types of components used in steelplated structures. These components include steel beams and columns as well as curved, stiffened, corrugated, laminated and other types of plate design.
With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, Analysis and design of plated structures will be a useful standard reference for civil engineers involved in the design of plated structures.
About the editors:
N E Shanmugam and C M Wang are both Professors of Civil Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Both have published widely in the area of plated structures.
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Génie Parasismique
Conception et dimensionnement des bâtiments
PPUR Publication

Pierino Lestuzzi and Marc Badoux
2008, 346 pages
Prix for Switzerland: CHF 85.00-.
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Le génie parasismique traite de l'impact des séismes sur les structures et des moyens d'y remédier. Il s'appuie notamment sur une
excellente connaissance des méthodes de dimensionnement parasismique, et en particulier du dimensionnement en capacité. Rédigé par deux spécialistes francophones du domaine, cet ouvrage offre une vue exhaustive de l'ensemble des moyens mis à disposition de l'ingénieur pour limiter l'impact des manifestations sismiques sur les constructions. Il montre toute l'importance de la prise en compte des sollicitations sismiques lors de la phase de conception de bâtiments neufs. Il présente et explique en détail les spécificités du comportement sismique et la méthode de dimensionnement en capacité, développée expressément pour le cas sismique. L'application de cette méthode est traitée dans le cadre des normes de construction les plus récentes.
Contenu
Avant-propos - Introduction - Eléments de sismologie - Réponse sismique des structures - Conception des bâtiments - Analyse sismique des bâtiments - Dimensionnement des bâtiments - Constructions en béton armé - Constructions en maçonnerie - Constructions en acier et en bois - Index.
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Séismes et construction
Eléments pour non spécialistes
2008, 136 pages, 15x22.5cm, broché
Prix pour la Suisse: CHF 45.00-
Prix à l'exportation: € 27.95-
Auteur: Pierino Lestuzzi
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Cet ouvrage expose de manière claire et synthétique la problématique de la prise en compte des séismes lors de la construction de bâtiments. Principalement destiné aux praticiens du secteur du bâtiment non spécialistes du sujet, il offre un aperçu complet de l’ensemble des éléments constructifs à considérer afin d’éviter tout désastre lors d’un séisme. L’ouvrage aborde les thèmes de la vulnérabilité des bâtiments, de la conception parasismique, du dimensionnement et des normes de construction à adopter, ainsi que de l’évaluation sismique sur les ouvrages existants.
Chaque chapitre se clôt par un résumé synthétique, et un lexique des définitions et des termes spécifiques utilisés dans le texte complète l'ouvrage.
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