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Failed Bridges , Case Studies, Causes and Consequences

When bridges fail, often with loss of human life, those involved may be unwilling to speak openly about the cause. Yet it is possible to learn from mistakes. The lessons gained lead to greater safety and are a source of innovation.
This book contains a systematic, unprecedented overview of more than 400 bridge failures assigned to the time of their occurrence in the bridges' life cycle and to the releasing events. Primary causes are identified. Many of the cases investigated are published here fpr the first time and previous interpretations are shown to be incomplete or incorrect. A catalogue of rules that can help to avoid future mistakes in design analysis, planning and erection is included.
A lifetime's work brilliantly compiled and courageously presented - a wealth of knowledge and experience for every structural engineer.
May 2010, 307 pages, 120 figures, 15 tables, Hardcover.
Language of Publication: English
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Sustainability of Constructions: Integrated Approach to Life-time Structural Engineering

Proceeding of Workshop, Timisoara
23-24 October 2009
L. Bragança, H. Koukkari

COST Action C25 "Sustainability of Constructions - Integrated Approach to Life-time Structural Engineering" is in its third year of activity and this publication is an additional constribution of the participants to the open public.

This book covers contributions of the 2nd Workshop on "Sustainability of Construction" held in Timisoara on the 23rd and 24th of October 2009.

The main objective of the Action is to promote science-based developments in sustainable constructions in Europe through the collection and collaborative analysis of scientific results concerning life-time structural engineering and especially the integration of environmental assessment methods and tools for structural engineering.

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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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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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Nº 304 - Fatigue Design of Steel and Composite Structures

Authors	Alain Nussbaumer, Luis Borges and Laurence Davaine
Publisher	ECCS and Ernst & Sohn
Year	2011
Price	55€

This volume addresses the specific subject of fatigue, a subject not familiar to many engineers, but still relevant for proper and good design of numerous steel structures. It explains all issues related to the subject: Basis of fatigue design, reliability and various verification formats, determination of stresses and stress ranges, fatigue strength, application range and limitations. It contains detailed examples of applications of the concepts, computation methods and verifications.

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Nº 55 - Calculation of the Fire Resistance of Centrally Loaded Composite Steel-Concrete Columns Exposed to the Standard Fire

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The structural behaviour in fire of composite columns consisting of rolled H-profiles encased in concrete, rolled H-profiles with concrete between the flanges and concrete filled hollow sections is treated with special regard to the basis assumptions and principles, the calculation models, comparisons between theoretical and experimental results and easily applicable design tables. The appendix with about 100 diagrams enables a quick and economical fire resistance design for the fire classes F30 and F120.

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Design of Plated Structures

Nº 303, 2010
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The main aim of this book is to provide practical advice to designers of plated structures for correct and efficient application of EN 1993-1-5 design rules. In Chapter 1 the purpose, the scope and the structure of the book is explained. In Chapter 2 a detailed and commented overview of EN 1993-1-5 design rules is given following the structure of the standard. Shear lag effect as well as plate buckling problems due to direct stresses, shear forces, transverse forces and interaction of these effects are covered. This chapter also includes a reduced stress method and a finite element analysis approach to plate buckling problems. A large number of design examples illustrate the proper application of individual design rules. Chapter 3 and 4 bring two complete design examples on a crane runway beam and a box-girder bridge.

Publisher ECCS
Authors: Darko Beg; Ulrike Kuhlmann; Laurence Davaine; Benjamin Braun
Written in English, 287 pages.
Price 55€

Steel Structures: Culture & Sustainability 2010, Proceedings of the international symposium, Istanbul, 21 - 23 September 2010

"Istanbul was selected as Cultural Capital of
Europe for the year 2010 when the Annual Meetings of the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS) would also take place. These two important events gave us both the opportunity and the mission to organize a Symposium to discuss new horizons on steel structuring in relation to contemporary culture, giving way to a new European vision for a better and sustainable future. Consequently, the international symposium "Steel Structures: Culture & Sustainability 2010" (SSCS 2010) was organized.
115 Abstracts were received for the symposium of which 83 were accepted. SSCS 2010 Proceeding contains 72 selected papers from 22 countries and keynote speeches. It covers historical and cultural aspects of steel structures and architecture, steel structures in relation to architectural functions and forms, sustainability, structural issues including stability and connections, constructional issues, earthquake resistance, retrofitting, seismic isolation, wind effect, fire related issues, composite structures, cold-formed / light gauge steel structures and case studies."

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P302– Fire Design of Steel Structures

This book explains and illustrates the rules that are given in the Eurocodes for designing steel structures subjected to fire. After the first introductory chapter, Chapter 2 explains how to calculate the mechanical actions (loads) in the fire situation based on the information given in EN 1990 and EN 1991. Chapter 3 presents the models to be used to represent the thermal actions created by the fire. Chapter 4 describes the procedures to be used to calculate the temperature of the steelwork from the temperature of the compartment and Chapter 5 shows how the information given in EN 1993-1-2 is used to determine the load bearing capacity of the steel structure. The methods use to evaluate the fire resistance of bolted and welded connections are described in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 describes a computer program called ‘Elefire-EN’ which is based on the simple calculation model given in the Eurocode and allows designers to quickly and accurately calculate the performance of steel components in the fire situation. Chapter 9 looks at the issues that a designer may be faced with when assessing the fire resistance of a complete building. This is done via a case study and addresses most of the concepts presented in the earlier Chapters. The concepts and fire engineering procedures given in the Eurocodes may seem complex to those more familiar with the prescriptive approach. This publication sets out the design process in a logical manner giving practical and helpful advice and easy to follow worked examples that will allow designers to exploit the benefits of this new approach to fire design.

Includes a licence of the software Elefir-EN, use the follwoing to download the program.
http://elefiren.web.ua.pt/

Authors: Jean-Marc Franssen, Paulo Vila Real
Publisher: ECCS | Ernst & Sohn
Year 2010, Price 70€

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P301– Design of Steel Structures

This book details the fundamental concepts of Eurocode 3, Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings and their practical application. Following a discussion of the Eurocode 3 basis of design, including the principles of reliability management and the limit state approach, the steel material standards and their use under Eurocode 3 are detailed. Structural analysis and modelling are presented in a chapter that will assist the design engineer in the first stages of design. This is followed by a major chapter that provides the design criteria and approaches for the various types of structural members. The theoretical basis and checking procedures are closely tied to the Eurocode requirements, making for a unique presentation of theory into practice. The following chapters expand on the principles and applications of elastic and plastic design of steel structures. Throughout the book, many design examples are presented that represent a significant part of the manual. These examples will facilitate the acceptance of the code and provide for a smooth transition from earlier national codes to the Eurocode.

Authors: Luís Simões da Silva, Rui Simões and Helena Gervásio
Publisher: ECCS | Ernst & Sohn
Year 2010, Price 70€

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P124 – The Testing of Connections with Mechanical Fasteners in Steel Sheeting and Sections - 2nd edition (January 2010) Nº124, 2009

This document replaces the earlier publication by the European Convention of Construc-tional Steelwork, European Recommendations for the Testing of Connections in Profiled Steel Sheeting and Sections, Publication no. 21, first published in 1977 and revised in 1983. Since this publication the use of profiled steel and cold-formed steel has grown considerably, particularly in the use of cold-formed steel sections in structural framing. The current docu-ment has been restructured to conform with guidance in current Eurocodes, which have also been introduced since 1983. The document has been prepared by the Technical Working Group 7.10, part of the ECCS Technical Committee TC7, Cold-formed steel structures.

This document intends to provide information and guidance on the testing of connections using mechanical fasteners in cold-formed steel structures and steel cladding to determine the design resistance and flexibility. Guidance is provided on the test methods, the interpretation of the results and the preparation of test reports. A list of current references is provided in the appendices.

This document has been prepared by the ECCS working group TWG 7.10 and approved by the Technical Committee TC7. The final draft of the first edition was circulated to TC7 in May 2007. The final draft of this second edition was circulated to TC7 in September 2009.

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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 €