Design of Aluminium Structures with Eurocode 9

Designers’ Guide to Eurocode 9 details the principles and application rules related to design aluminium structures according to Eurocode 9.

Master the design of aluminium structures with Eurocode 9. Explore the principles and practical applications in this essential guide for designers.

Designers’ Guide to Eurocode 9
by P. Tindall and T.Hoglund

Introduction

General

• Scope
• Normative references
• Assumptions
• Distinction between principles and application rules
• Terms and definitions
• Symbols
• Conventions for member axes
• Specification for execution of the work

Basis of design

• Requirements
• Principles of limit state design
• Basic variables
• Verification by the partial factor method
• Design assisted by testing

Materials

• General
• Structural aluminium
• Connecting devices

Durability

Structural analysis

• Structural modelling
• Global analysis
• Imperfections
• Methods of analysis

Ultimate limit states

• Basis
• Resistance of cross-sections
  • Example 6.1: tension resistance of a bar with bolt holes and an attachment
  • Example 6.2: resistance of an I cross-section in compression
  • Example 6.3: resistance of a class 4 hollow section in compression
  • Example 6.4: bending moment resistance of a class 1 cross-section
  • Example 6.5: bending moment resistance of a class 3 cross-section
  • Example 6.6: bending moment resistance of a class 4 cross-section
  • Example 6.7: bending moment resistance of a welded member with a transverse weld
  • Example 6.8: cross-section resistance under combined bending and shear
  • Example 6.9: cross-section resistance of a square hollow section under combined bending and compression
• Buckling resistance of members
  • Example 6.10: buckling resistance of a compression member
  • Example 6.11: buckling resistance of a member with a stepwise variable cross-section
  • Example 6.12: lateral torsional buckling resistance
  • Example 6.13: a member under major axis bending and compression
  • Example 6.14: lateral torsional buckling of a member in bi-axis bending and compression
• Uniform built-up compression members
• Unstiffened plates under in-plane loading
  • Example 6.15: resistance of an unstiffened plate under axial compression
• Stiffened plates under in-plane loading
  • Example 6.16: resistance of an orthotropic plate under axial compression
• Plate girders
• Members with corrugated webs
  • Example 6.17: plate girder in shear, bending and concentrated forces

Serviceability limit states

• General
• Serviceability limit states for buildings
  • Example 7.1: vertical deflection of a beam

Design of joints

• Basis of design
• Intersections for bolted, riveted and welded joints
• Joints loaded in shear subject to impact, vibration and/or load reversal
• Classification of joints
• Connections made with bolts, rivets and pins
  • Example 8.1: bolted connection
• Welded connections
• Hybrid connections
• Adhesive-bonded connections
• Other joining methods
  • Example 8.2: welded connection between a diagonal and a chord member

Annexes to EN 1999-1-1

• Annex A – reliability differentiation
• Annex B – equivalent T stub in tension
  • Example 9.1: resistance of equivalent T-stub
• Annex C – material selection
• Annex D – corrosion and surface protection
• Annex E – analytical models for stress–strain relationship
  • Example 9.2: value of coefficients in the Ramberg–Osgood formula
• Annex F – behaviour of cross-sections beyond the elastic limit
• Annex G – rotation capacity
  • Example 9.3: shape factors and rotation capacity
• Annex H – plastic hinge method for continuous beams
  • Example 9.4: bending moment resistance if the plastic hinge method is used
• Annex I – lateral torsional buckling of beams and torsional or torsional flexural buckling of compression members
• Annex J – properties of cross-sections
  • Example 9.5: lateral torsional buckling of an asymmetric beam with a stiffened flange
• Annex K – shear lag effects in member design
• Annex L – classification of joints
• Annex M – adhesive-bonded connections

Cold-formed structural sheeting

• Introduction
• Material properties, thickness, tolerances and durability
• Rounded corners and the calculation of geometric properties
• Local buckling
• Bending moment
  • Example 10.1: the bending moment resistance of trapezoidal sheeting with a stiffened flange
• Support reaction
• Combined bending moment and support reaction
• Flange curling
• Other items in EN 1999-1-4
• Durability of fasteners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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