Design of steel beams with large web openings

BS EN 1993-1-13: Beams with large web openings has been published by BSI. It deals with the design of steel beams with circular, hexagonal, rectangular, elongated circular and sinusoidal openings and is a sister-document to the design of composite beams with large web openings that is being worked on currently under EN 1994-1-1. Mark Lawson of the SCI, who was a member of the Project Team, explains some of the technical aspects of this new Part.

In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this technical paper, this article is available as a pdf download only.

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