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The new Eurocodes Starter Pack of Scia Engineer is offered to cover the needs of civil engineers who want to model, analyse and design typical frame, truss and similar structures made of steel and concrete according to the Eurocodes.
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Software solutions for the Eurocodes
Nemetschek Scia already has as a software supplier for engineering applications for over 20 years of experience with the Eurocodes. The latest years the functionality to design according to the Eurocodes has been extended, including the National Annexes and new applications for specific types of calculations. This paper gives an overview of the solutions for each Eurocode part.
| Software solutions for the Eurocodes (EN) 
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| Software oplossingen voor de Eurocodes (NL) |
Reinforced concrete column
Design of reinforcement in a column from a 3D frame with rectangular cross-section without buckling data and user reinforcement. This is explained by means of a detailed manual calculation and compared with Scia Engineer results.
Posttensioned concrete slab
The idea of this manual is to provide user information how to define prestressing and perform design of necessary reinforcement and also verify the structure according to EN 1992-1-1.
Two main types are described in this tutorial. The models are the following:
A model with real defined prestressing tendon
A model using equivalent load method
Explanation of each model is given later in the manual
This example doesn’t deal about user definition of the structure. The input and definition of the typical entities as beams, slabs, loadcases, combinations etc are explained in other manuals or tutorials. This manual is especially designed for experience user and focused on definition, calculation, design and check of the prestressed 2D structures.
Interested in the Scia Engineer file? Please contact our Scia support team.
| Posttensioned concrete slab EN 1992-1-1 |
2D member design
The aim of this document is to describe each step of design and check of 2D member and to describe some of tips and tricks, which might be important and useful in each part.
| 2D Concrete design - EN 1992-1-1 |
| 2D Concrete design - EN 1992-1-1 
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Aluminium Structures in Building and Civil Engineering Applications
Structural applications of aluminium are considered in this paper. Although the discussion is mainly devoted to Europe, the paper also refers, where possible, to developments in other parts of the world. The problems faced by a designer in creating an optimum design are described, followed by a brief review of the research carried out in the past four decades on the structural behaviour of aluminium and a preview of topics still to be investigated. A historical overview of standards is then given, starting from the ECCS Recommendations up to the recently published Eurocode 9. Finally, a number of structural applications are dealt with, as well as some future directions and concluding remarks.
| Aluminium Structures in Building and Civil Engineering Applications |
Publication of Structural Engineering International - Volume 20/ Number 4/ November 2010
Design of cold-formed steel purlins according to EN 1993-1-3
Cold-formed steel is the common term for products made by rolling or pressing thin gauges of sheet steel into goods.
CFS has been widely used in buildings, automobiles, equipment, home and office furniture, utility poles, storage racks, grain bins, highway products, drainage facilities, and bridges. Since some period, Scia Engineer contains the option to design and check cold-formed members. How to handle with this functionality and more is explained in the presentation about the cold-formed steel purlins (dutch and french only).
| Ontwerp van koudgevormde stalen gordingen vlgs EN 1993-1-3 |
| Conception des pannes en acier formées à froid suivant EN 1993-1-3 |
Cold-formed Steel and Aluminium in Scia Engineer
This document focuses on the parts EN 1993-1-3 and EN 1999 in Scia Engineer. Furthermore, it contains more information about: the National Annex for Steel and Aluminium, latest improvements for steel in Scia Engineer 2010.1 and benchmarks according to EN 1993.
| CF Steel and Aluminium in Scia Engineer |
Results Eurocode survey
Nemetschek Scia asked structural engineers a few questions relating to the Eurocodes and their legal aspects. The results obtained in 2009 and their comparison to the previous survey made in 2007 are summarised in the enclosed PowerPoint presentation.
Eurocode 3 in Scia Engineer
Since years Nemetschek Scia has been wide awake with regard to the Eurocodes. Scia Engineer supports EC0, EC1, EC2, EC3, EC4 and EC9. This paper gives insight in the various functionalities and calculation methods for steel design in Scia Engineer according to EC3.
| Eurocode 3 in Scia Engineer |
Eurocode 2 in Software Practice
The Eurocodes will become the reference design codes in the European construction and civil engineering world.
It is now up to the software companies to offer the necessary support!
This is what Nemetschek Scia does with its software Scia Engineer. In this document, the possibilities for concrete design in Scia Engineer according to EC2 are put in the spotlights.
| Eurocode 2 in Software Practice |
Explanatory Note: the Eurocodes
This note gives a brief and clear description about the Eurocodes. Questions like ‘when will the Eurocodes be adopted’, ‘for who are the Eurocodes meant’, and much more are answered.
| Explanatory Note: the Eurocodes |
Eurocodes in the software practice
The Eurocodes will become the reference design codes in the European construction and civil engineering world. They consist of a series of 10 European standards, each of which including several parts. In the daily analysis practice of engineering offices this implementation involves major consequences in a variety of fields: geotechnics, structural fire design, execution, temporary structures and so on. It is now up to the software companies to offer them the necessary support!
| Eurocodes in the software practice |
Guidance paper L
In order to ensure the understanding between the European Commission and the Member States, as well as among the Member States themselves, the Commission published a series of Guidance Papers. One of these papers is Guidance paper L; it gives explanation about the application and use of the Eurocodes.
Commission Recommandation of 11 December 2003
This document describes the recommandation of the European Commission on the implementation and use of the Eurocodes for construction works and structural construction products.
| Commission Recommandation of 11 December 2003 |
The Eurocodes: Implementation and use
Booklet on the Eurocodes, prepared by the JRC in order to support the implementation, harmonisation and further development of the Eurocodes.
Source: http://eurocodes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
| The Eurocodes: Implementation and use |
Other Eurocode papers
This link provides some more general information about the Eurocodes.
