The Leonardo da Vinci Project CZ/08/LLP-LdV/TOI/134020 “Transfer of Innovations Provided in Eurocodes, addresses the urgent need to implement the new system of European documents related to design and construction work and products. These documents, called Eurocodes, are systematically based on the recently developed Council Directive 89/106/EEC “The Construction Product Directive” and its Interpretative Documents ID 1 and ID 2. Implementation of Eurocodes in each Member State is a demanding task as each country has its own long-term tradition in design and construction. The project should enable an effective implementation and application of the new methods for designing and verification of buildings and civil engineering works in all the partner countries (CZ, DE, ES, IT, NL) and in other Member States. The need to explain and effectively use the latest principles specified in Eurocodes standards is apparent from enterprises, undertakings and public national authorities involved in construction industry and also from university and colleges. Training materials, manuals and software programmes for education are urgently required. The submitted Guidebook 2 completes the set of two guidebooks intended to provide required manuals and software products for training, education and effective implementation of Eurocodes: Guidebook 1: Load Effects on Buildings Guidebook 2: Design of bridges. It is expected that the Guidebooks will address the following intents in further harmonization o f European construction industry: - reliability improvement and unification of the process of design, - development of a single market for product and for construction services, - new opportunities for trained primary target groups in the labour market. The Guidebook 2 is focused on determining load effects on road, railway and pedestrian bridges and special civil structures. The following main topics are discussed in particular: - basic requirements on bridges, - basis of structural design, - traffic loads for static and fatigue assessment, - non traffic actions, - accidental actions, - combination rules for bridges, - examples and case studies. Annex A to Guidebook 2 concerns new traffic trends in European traffic and their consequence on bridge design and on assessment of existing bridges, Annex B provides basic information about action and combination rules for special structures, like cranes, masts, towers and pipelines. The Guidebook 2 is written in a user-friendly way employing only basic mathematical tools, supplemented by examples and case studies developed in detail. A wide range of potential users of the Guidebooks and other training materials includes practising engineers, designers, technicians, experts of public authorities, young people – high school and university students. The target groups come from all territorial regions of the partner countries. However, the dissemination of the project results is foreseen to be spread into all Member States of CEN and other interested countries.
Design of Bridges
CROCE, PIETRO
2010-01-01
Abstract
The Leonardo da Vinci Project CZ/08/LLP-LdV/TOI/134020 “Transfer of Innovations Provided in Eurocodes, addresses the urgent need to implement the new system of European documents related to design and construction work and products. These documents, called Eurocodes, are systematically based on the recently developed Council Directive 89/106/EEC “The Construction Product Directive” and its Interpretative Documents ID 1 and ID 2. Implementation of Eurocodes in each Member State is a demanding task as each country has its own long-term tradition in design and construction. The project should enable an effective implementation and application of the new methods for designing and verification of buildings and civil engineering works in all the partner countries (CZ, DE, ES, IT, NL) and in other Member States. The need to explain and effectively use the latest principles specified in Eurocodes standards is apparent from enterprises, undertakings and public national authorities involved in construction industry and also from university and colleges. Training materials, manuals and software programmes for education are urgently required. The submitted Guidebook 2 completes the set of two guidebooks intended to provide required manuals and software products for training, education and effective implementation of Eurocodes: Guidebook 1: Load Effects on Buildings Guidebook 2: Design of bridges. It is expected that the Guidebooks will address the following intents in further harmonization o f European construction industry: - reliability improvement and unification of the process of design, - development of a single market for product and for construction services, - new opportunities for trained primary target groups in the labour market. The Guidebook 2 is focused on determining load effects on road, railway and pedestrian bridges and special civil structures. The following main topics are discussed in particular: - basic requirements on bridges, - basis of structural design, - traffic loads for static and fatigue assessment, - non traffic actions, - accidental actions, - combination rules for bridges, - examples and case studies. Annex A to Guidebook 2 concerns new traffic trends in European traffic and their consequence on bridge design and on assessment of existing bridges, Annex B provides basic information about action and combination rules for special structures, like cranes, masts, towers and pipelines. The Guidebook 2 is written in a user-friendly way employing only basic mathematical tools, supplemented by examples and case studies developed in detail. A wide range of potential users of the Guidebooks and other training materials includes practising engineers, designers, technicians, experts of public authorities, young people – high school and university students. The target groups come from all territorial regions of the partner countries. However, the dissemination of the project results is foreseen to be spread into all Member States of CEN and other interested countries.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
