The subject of this guide is the design of non-composite steel beams to BS EN 1993-1-1 – Eurocode 3:
Design of Steel Structures – Part 1-1: General Rules for Buildings. It covers both restrained and unrestrained rolled steel ‘I’ and ‘H’ beam sections.
This is the first in the series of Level 2 guides and as such,the reader is assumed to be familiar with the concepts explained in relevant Level 1 Technical Guidance Notes.
(This article was updated in October 2016 to reflect errata issued since its original publication.)