Steel Buildings in Europe

Part 4: Detailed Design 4 – 39 0,2   0,04  cr Ed N N T      T Figure 5.11 Verification of column resistance – sheet 2 Figure 5.10 and Figure 5.11 describe the detailed design verifications that are necessary to verify a column subject to axial load only. The application of this process is illustrated in WE5 in Appendix A. Use of design aids The member resistance calculator provided in Multi-storey steel buildings. Part 8: Design software – section capacity [11] may be used to calculate the resistance of members in compression, bending, tension and combined bending and compression. In addition, Access Steel document SI004 [4] provides an interactive worked example where users may input their own parameters to achieve the same result. 5.3.2 Columns subject to axial load and moments The general methods in EN 1993-1-1 [1] for the design of members subject to axial force and moments are complex for H columns in low and medium rise buildings. Access Steel document SN048 (only available in English) of provides an NCCI for such cases, including a justification of its simplifications. The process to be adopted is described below: