Standards Development

Scope

(1) This document establishes principles and requirements for the safety, serviceability, robustness and durability of structures, including geotechnical structures, appropriate to the consequences of failure.

(2) This document is also applicable for existing structures as specified in EN 1990-2.

(3) This document is intended to be used in conjunction with the other Eurocodes for the design of buildings and civil engineering works, including temporary structures.

(4) This document describes the basis for structural and geotechnical verification according to the limit state principle.

(5) The verification methods in this document are based primarily on the partial factor method.

NOTE 1 Alternative methods are given in the other Eurocodes for specific applications.

NOTE 2 The Annexes to this document also provide general guidance concerning the use of alternative methods.

(6) This document is also applicable for the design of structures where materials or actions outside the scope of EN 1991 (all parts) to EN 1999 (all parts) are involved.

NOTE In this case, additional or amended provisions can be necessary.

Purpose

The amendment introduces provisions for design assisted by numerical methods, including new terminology. This is important due to the increasing use of advanced numerical analysis in structural and geotechnical design and the need for a consistent framework for validation, verification and reliability within EN 1990 and the whole Eurocode suite.

The amendment also incorporates technical and editorial changes identified during the development of EN 1990-1/A1, and changes aim to improve consistency across the Eurocode Parts.