Eurocode 1 - Actions onstructures-
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This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 1991-1-7:2006 incorporating corrigendum February 2010.
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The structural Eurocodes are divided into packages by groupingEurocodes for each of the main materials conerete steel positea mon date of withdrawal (DOW) for all the relevant parts that concrete and steel timber masonry and aluminium this is to enableare needed for a particular design. The conflicting national standards will be withdrawn at the end of the coexistence period after all theEN Eurocodes of a package are available.
calibration during which the national annex is issued followed by a Following publication of the EN there is a period allowed for nationalfurther coexistence period of a maximum 3 years. During thenational provisions to withdraw conflicting national rules before the coexistence period Member States will be encouraged to adapt theirend of the coexistent period in March 2010.
At the end of this coexistence period the national standard(s) will be withdrawn.
In the UK the following national standards are superseded by the Eurocode1 series. These standards will be withdrawn on a date to be announced.
Eurocode Superseded British StandardsEN 1991-1-1 EN 1991-1-2 none BS 6399-1:1996EN 1991-1-3 BS 6399-3:1988EN 1991-1-4 BS 6399-2:1997 BS 5400-2:1978*EN 19911-6 EN 1991-1-5 BS 5400-2:1978* noneEN 1991-1-7 noneEN 1991-2 BS 5400-1:1988 BS 5400-2:1978*EN 1991-4 EN 1991-3 nonenone
*N.B. BS 5400-2:1978 wuill not be fully superseded wntil publication ofAnnex A.2 to BS EN 1990:2002.
Amendments/corrigenda issued since publication
This British Standard waspublished under the authority of the Standards Policy andon 29 September 2006 Strategy Committee
Date Comments30 April 2010 Implementation of CEN corrigendum February 2010
BSI 2010
ISBN 978 0 580 68990 1
The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted by Technical CommitteeActions (loadings) on structures. B/525 Building and civil engineering structures to Submittee B/525/1
A list of organizations represented on this submittee can be obtained onrequest to its secretary.
national level the range and possible choice will be given in the normative Where a normative part of this EN allows for a choice to be made at theNDPs can be a specific value for a factor a specific level or class a partieular text and a Note will qualify it as a Nationally Determined Parameter (NDP).method or a particular application rule if several are proposed in the EN.
To enable EN 1991-1-7 to be used in the UK the NDPs will be published in aNational Annex which will be made available by BSI in due course after public consultation has taken place.
This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of acontract. Users are responsible for its correct application.
Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.
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