Traceability of products requires their unique identification. In Germany blood products have been encoded by Eurocode since 1998. EU Directives 2004/23/EC, 2006/86/EC and 2015/565/EC demanded unique identification and safe traceability procedure also for tissues and cells. Eurocode IBLS e.V. and the German Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI) working parties '!' within t...

The basic hypothesis for the assessment of fire resistance of wood structures is that for temperatures above 300 oC, wood is no longer able to sustain any load. Consequently, the determination of the location of the 300 oC isotherm, the charring depth, is decisive for the result of fire resistance calculation methods. Charring rate of wood is dependent of numerous factors, such as wood species ...

Paper presents a study about dynamic effects obtained from the dynamic load testing of the city highway bridges in Latvia carried out from 2005 to 2012. 9 prestressed concrete bridges and 4 composite bridges were considered. 11 of 13 bridges were designed according to the Eurocodes but two according to the previous structural codes used in Latvia (SNIP 2.05.03-84). The dynamic properties of the...

ABSTRACT: Recently, limit state design (LSD) in geotechnical engineering has been developed through LRFD in North America and Eurocode 7 in Europe. LRFD is an approach that estimates resistance by design model and that multiplies resistance factor by calculated resistance to reflect the uncertainty of materials and design models. Whereas, Eurocode 7 employs the partial resistance factor applied...

A reduction of the shear resistance was introduced with the crack factor kcr in Eurocode 5. The factor 0.67 corresponds to cracks that have a depth of 1/3 of the beam width, which rarely occurs under normal conditions. The glulam industry in Sweden has not observed any problems or shear failures due to cracks with previously used shear values. Hence the design requirements do not seem reasonabl...

Seismic design may require non-conventional concept, due to the fact that the stiffness and layout of the structure have a great effect on the overall structural behaviour, on the seismic load intensity as well as on the internal force distribution. To find an economical and optimal structural configuration the key issue is the optimal design of the lateral load resisting system. This paper foc...

The article presents a detailed comparison of two calculation models with Eurocode Standard guidelines. The stress has been put on defining the amount of reinforcement necessary to reduce the width of cracks resulting from imposed deformations in various ambient conditions. With the help of different approaches, the article presents the influence of the atmospheric factor on crack occurrence an...

The 2002 Molise earthquake, which was defined by seismologists as a normal event in the geodynamics of the Italian peninsula but had an international resonance due to the collapse of a primary school, triggered a series of research initiatives in earthquake engineering and significant modifications to building codes in Italy. The modifications were completed at the beginning of 2008 with the re...

Abstract. The modern unification of the European standards EUROCODE requires securing a constant quality of metallurgical production in the EU countries. In this paper, experimentally found statistical characteristics of yield stress, ultimate tensile strength and ductility of Czech and Austrian steel are presented. In the probabilistic reliability analysis, the experimentally found yield stres...

Current stainless steel design codes, like the Eurocode 3, part 1.4, (2006), are still largely based on analogies with carbon steel structural behavior. The net section rupture represents one of the ultimate limit states usually verified for structural elements submitted to normal tension stress. An investigation aiming to evaluate the tension capacity of carbon and stainless steel bolted struc...