Euro Codes for Steel and Concrete Structures

ABOUT THE COURSE

Euro Codes (EC) are being introduced in the UK. The design philosophy in the EC is different from the allowable conventional codes which most of the engineers are used to. The course aims to provide participants with an understanding of structural reliability and Eurocodes. Practical applications for the safety assessment of engineering structures, considering the key techniques involved, will be highlighted. This courses help to bring designers up to date with the practical application of Eurocodes 1 (action), 2 (Concrete), 3 (steel), and 8 (earthquake). The syllabus will include: reliability based code development, overview of Eurocodes, understanding Eurocodes related to loading, steel, concrete and earthquakes. EC2, EC3 and EC8 will be explained through some examples. The course is intended for practising engineers who need to understand Eurocodes and reliability based code development.

PROGRAMME

Day 1

09.00 – 10.30 Lecture 1: Reliability Based Code Development, Performance based risk informed design. – Dr Boulent Imam
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 Lecture 2: Overview of Eurocodes, EC0 and EC1 – Dr Boulent Imam
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Lecture 3: Overview of Eurocodes, EC2: Design of Concrete Structures – I – Dr Juan Sagaseta
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00 Lecture 4: Overview of Eurocodes, EC2: Design of Concrete Structures – II Dr Juan Sagaseta

 Day 2

09.00 – 10.30 Lecture 5: Eurocodes EC2: Design of Concrete Structures – Examples – III – Dr Juan Sagaseta
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 Lecture 6: Eurocode 3: Design of Steel Structures, General Rules and Rules for Buildings (EN 1993-1.1) – Dr Boulent Imam
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Lecture 7: Design of Steel Connections – EC3 – Dr Boulent Imam
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.00 Lecture 8: Steel Design Examples – Dr Boulent Imam

ABOUT THE LECTURERS:

Dr Boulent ImamBSc (Hons), MSc (Distinction), PhD is a Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey, having joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2007. He is Programme Director for the MScs in Bridge Engineering & Infrastructure Engineering and Management and is one of the key contributors in teaching structural steel design at University of Surrey. His research interests lie in the area of fatigue and fracture of structural components and systems, life cycle analysis, asset management and risk and reliability assessment of structural systems. Dr Imam has contributed significantly towards indepth understanding of the fatigue behaviour of riveted railway bridges and developed methods for
more reliable quantification of their remaining fatigue. Dr Imam has participated in major UK and European Projects including an EPSRC-project investigating the reliability of bridge infrastructure under changing environmental conditions and he has been a principal investigator for the European project BriFaG (Bridge Fatigue Guidance), drafting European recommendations for the fatigue design of new and assessment of old steel bridges. Through the European project MAINLINE (Maintenance, Renewal and Improvement of Rail Transport Infrastructure to Reduce Economic and Environmental Impacts), where he collaborated with the main railway infrastructure owners and managers in Europe, he has contributed towards the development of a life cycle assessment tool that can compare different maintenance/replacement strategies for railway infrastructure based on a life cycle evaluation. Dr Imam has also extensively collaborated with Network Rail on the assessment of bridges and is currently leading a project on climate change adaptation for asset management purposes.

Dr Juan SagasetaPhD, DIC, CEng, MICE, MCICCP, Eur Ing, is a Lecturer at University of Surrey in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2010. He worked as a Structural Engineer in a consultancy office in Madrid (Proes) carrying out structural design of buildings and bridges before moving to the UK. In 2005, he started his PhD at Imperial College London on Shear Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures. His thesis was focused on the influence of aggregate fracture on the shear strength of RC beams. This work included testing of large-scale specimens and developing analytical models using the strut-and-tie method, discrete crack approaches and non-linear
finite element analysis.
From 2008 to 2010, Dr Juan Sagaseta was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he carried out research on punching shear of flat slabs and slab bridges. His work at EPFL focused on extending existing punching shear models and design methods to non-symmetrical cases, which are commonly found in practice. The findings contributed towards the validation of the new design formulas for punching shear in the first version of the New Model Code 2010 produced by the Fédération Internationale du Béton (fib). In 2011 he was awarded the fib Achievement Award (research category) based on his Doctoral Thesis for the scientific and technical contributions in the area of structural concrete. In 2012 he received the Magazine of Concrete Research Award (ICE publishing) for best paper of the year. He has been recently the principal investigator on an EPSRC project on the structural performance of flat slabcolumn connections under impact and blast loading, and susequent project on progressive collapse of flat slab buildings in collaboration with Arup. In 2012, he was invited to join the Concrete Industry Eurocode 2 group in the UK and he is also an active member in fib task groups 2.2.3 and 2.2.1.