Section I 8
Section I 8 – Structural Design Control Authority, Metal Construction, Composite Construction
Fields of Activity
Granting structural design type approvals
Coordination and general policy matters in the following areas:
- stability and structural design
- safety theory in construction
- wind turbines (e.g. DIBt Guideline on Wind Turbines and related comments)
- design loads and actions
- seismic design
- Eurocodes
Evaluation and development of provisions for national technical approvals and European Technical Assessments concerning the resistance-to-fire of structures
- Steel construction
- anchor devices for personal fall protection systems
- bulk containers
- connectors
- steel framing, space frames
- tension members
- Light metal construction
- cold rolled steel girders
- profiled sheets
- suspended metal ceilings
- Connections and connectors
Materials for metal construction
- Metallic products and components made of
- stainless steel
- thermomechanically rolled fine-grained steel
- creep-resistant steels
- Welding
- prefabricated steel and aluminium elements
- construction products welded using special methods
- Corrosion protection
- Composite components
- composite floors
- composite columns
- composite girders
- Shear connectors