Steel Buildings in Europe

Part 3: Actions 3 - 32 9 EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE Buildings not exposed to daily or seasonal climatic changes may not need to be assessed under thermal actions. For large buildings, it is generally good practice to design the building with expansion joints so that the temperature changes do not induce internal forces in the structure. Information about the design of expansion joints is given in Section 1.4.2 of Single-storey steel buildings Part 2: Concept design [11] . When the effects of temperature have to be taken into account, EN 1993-1-5 provides rules to determine them.