... of this and the new topics included, the page count of EN 1992-1-1 has increased by 77%. There are also some fairly significant changes to existing rules made in the second-generation Eurocode 2. These include concrete design compressive strength and the inclusion of confinement shear design generally...

... has been rewritten and updated as part of the project to update the DMRB suite of documents. The key technical changes introduced in the document are outlined in this paper, including: methods for estimating worst credible strength; simplification and improvement in shear resistance near a support...