Begrenzung der Biegeschlankheit nach Eurocode 2

Limitation of span to depth ratio (slenderness) according to Eurocode 2

Deflections in reinforced concrete frames must already be sufficiently limited during design. The Eurocode 2, which will be implemented in 2012 in Germany, provides new rules, which are clearly more demanding than those of the DIN 1045 (issue 1988 and current issue 2008).The rules in EC2 are however, by their nature, not design equations from which the member dimensions can be directly determined. Therefore they are normally used for final verification of the design. To overcome this, design graphs, based on the design equations of EC2, have been prepared. These are meant to significantly help architects and engineers in the early stages of design by avoiding an iterative procedure as far as possible.