1 Scope
1.1
Scope of
EN
1993-1-5
(1) This document provides rules for structural design of stiffened and unstiffened
nominally flat plates which are subject to in-plane forces.
(2) Non-uniform stress distributions due to shear lag, in-plane load introduction
and plate buckling are covered. The effects of out-of-plane loading are outside the scope of
this document.
NOTE 1 The rules in this part complement the rules for class 1, 2, 3 and 4 sections, see EN 1993‑1‑1.
NOTE 2 For the design of slender plates which are subject to repeated direct stress and/or shear and also fatigue due to out-of-plane bending of plate elements (“breathing”), see EN 1993‑2 and EN 1993‑6.
NOTE 3 For the effects of out-of-plane loading and for the combination of in-plane effects and out-of-plane loading effects, see EN 1993‑2 and EN 1993‑1‑7.
(3) Single plate elements are considered as nominally flat where the curvature radius r in the direction perpendicular to the compression satisfies, as illustrated in Figure 1.1:
| b | is the panel width; |
| t | is the plate thickness. |
