Steel Buildings in Europe

Part 4: Detailed Design 4 – 37 Such beams are therefore always designed to a performance specification for a specific project, using specialist software. Design from first principles to the Eurocodes is not practicable. 5.3 Columns As discussed in Section 3, one of the advantages of simple construction is that internal columns in regular grids may generally be designed for axial load only. External columns will be subject to both axial loads and moments from connection eccentricity. A simple design method for columns in simple construction with nominal moments from connection eccentricity is described in Section 5.3.2.