SECOND GENERATION OF EUROCODES AND NATIONAL STANDARDS

Abstract

A brief analysis of the experience of applying
European standards for the design of building
structures in both international and national practice
is given. The advantages and disadvantages of
internalization in the development of regulatory
documents of different countries are shown. The
basic principles underlying the development of the
second-generation Eurocodes, as well as the main
areas of improvement of normative documents on
the design of building structures, are considered.
Attention is drawn to the recommendation to use the
LOA principle, according to which any calculation
model of resistance can be presented at several
calculation levels of approximation, as well as to
the implementation of the "ease of use" approach.
It is shown that one of the main tasks for the near
future should be considered the preservation of
national norms and their improvement taking into
account international achievements. It is pointed
out the importance of the practice of European
countries, where documents additional to the
norms are developed (reference books, manuals,
recommendations, textbooks, software, etc.),
As for the issues of the development of the normative
branch of norms, the need to develop normative
support for the problem of the survivability of buildings
and structures, the problem of computerization of
design, which is almost not developed in existing
norms, and the task of streamlining norms devoted
to methods of evaluating existing structures are
analyzed in more detail. For these issues, a description
of the main factors that should find their place in the
regulations is given. Some accompanying problems
of the modernization of the domestic regulatory
framework of design are considered, the solution
of which requires the adoption of a number of
administrative decisions, including at the legislative
level.