Nonlinear Behaviour, Design and Analysis of Steel Structures: Recent Findings and New Trends for the Next Generation of European Design Standards

In Europe, Eurocodes are the set of standards for structural design, integrating all specific National experiences and research outputs. However, about ten years have elapsed since the official issue of these codes. Within this last decade, European codes for structural design have been extensively used by designers and practitioners, thus showing the lacks and fallacies in the application of some requirements and confirming the need to update the codes. On the other hand, prolific research activities have been carried out in different fields of structural design introducing a number of novel results on different topics. In line with that, the CEN Technical Committee, called CEN/TC 250 ‘Structural Eurocodes’, and specific sub-committee working groups (SC/WG) made up of renown experts have been organized to work on each and/or new additional Eurocode within a six year program of work to develop the next generation of European standards for structural design, which should be ended within 2020 with the aim to embrace new technologies and future market needs.