ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the contents of selected sub-parts of Part 1 of Eurocode 3, the new European standard for the design of buildings in steel, which is expected to replace BS 5950 by about 2010. The chapter highlights the principal differences between Eurocode 3 and BS 5950 and illustrates the new design procedures by means of a number of worked examples on beams, columns and connections. To help comparison but primarily to ease understanding of the Eurocode, the material has here been presented in a similar order to that in Chapter 4 of this book on BS 5950.
