ECCS EUROPEAN CONVENTION FOR 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 4998 Ne74EUROPEAN CONVENTION FOR CONSTRUCTIONAL STEELWORK CONVENTION EUROPEENNE DE LA CONSTRUCTION METALLIQUE EUROPAISCHE KONVENTION FUR STAHLBAU ECCS - Advisory Committee 5 Application of Eurocode 3 Examples to Eurocode 3 FIRST EDITION 1993 N°71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 steel buildings during the ENV period. These examples concentrate on those aspects which are likely to be needed for daily practical design work. The third and final stage will be the production of a series of “Design Aids" which will enable the design process to be made more quickly by using tabulated or graphical values for the various design formula contained in EC 3/1. The combination of these three documents will enable practising engineers to more easily adopt to the use of the new Eurocodes and should have a beneficial help in their speedy introduction.