Development of Eurocode 3 and Research Contributions

This paper gives an overview on recent work regarding the revision of EN 1993 on European level including selected scientific and technical issues and a summary of the activities executed within the European Standardization committee CEN/TC250/SC3 “Design of Steel Structures“ under the chair of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Kuhlmann. This includes the description of current normative developments for the 2nd Generation of Eurocodes which aim at an evolution by improvements and harmonisation of the existing codes. In addition, a technical review of selected rules is given on a number of issues, which support the code revision and reflect well the recent tendencies in steel structures.