Untersuchungen zur Integration spezieller Stahlprofiltafeln in die Eurocodes

Investigations on the integration of special profiled steel sheets in the Eurocodes.

In the field of lightweight metal structures, a wide range of new innovative profile types has been developed over the past years. In addition, the application field of profile types has been enlarged. This can be attributed to the growing request for architecturally appealing and simultaneously sustainable products. For these special new profile types and application fields there are only occasionally and partly very limited design concepts in their application. Within the scope of a current European research project at the Research Center for Steel, Timber and Masonry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), performed in cooperation with the project partners Syndicat National du Profilage des Produits Plats en Acier (SNPPA), Bacacier Profilage SAS, Société Bretonne de Profilage SAS (Joris Ide), Ingenieurbüro für Leichtbau (IFL) and Sokol Palisson Consultants SARL, the fundamentals for the enlargement of existing specific technical regulations are created on the basis of experimental and numerical investigations. The objective is the elaboration of regulations and recommendations as well as design concepts for special thin-walled cold-formed steel profiles. This article gives an overview of the research project and the profiles to be examined.