The new standard, EN 1993-1-14, covers both ultimate limit state (including fatigue) and service limit state, and gives rules and guidelines for the following key topics:
- Modelling (geometry, boundary conditions, loads, materials, imperfections)
- Analyses (everything from linear elastic analysis to analyses with geometric and material nonlinear effects, including imperfections)
- Methods for design
- Documentation
The course will be suitable for those who wish to gain insight into the new standard and for those who want to expand their FEA capabilities beyond linear elastic analyses and “hand calculations”. Participants will, for instance, learn how to determine the resistance directly from the analysis results, which can be useful when hand calculations become challenging. The course will not provide training in use of software. Furthermore, this is not a course in the theory of the finite element method, and participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the subject (however, a brief introduction/review will be provided).
Language: English.
Lecturer: Erik Løhre Grimsmo
- PhD in Structural Engineering from NTNU (topic: joints and connections in steel)
- Project Engineer at Aas-Jakobsen (part of Norconsult)
- Committee Chair for SN/K 72, the Norwegian mirror committee for EN 1993 and -4
- Committee member of SN/K 64, the Norwegian mirror committee for EN 1990
- Member of WG8, the European committee responsible for the development of EN 1993-1-8 / the joint standard (including the subgroup for FEM analyses)
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Program:
08.45-09.00: Registration
09.00-09.45: Introduction
09.45-10.00: Coffee Break
10.00-10.45: Analysis, basis for Design
10.45-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-11.45: Modelling
11.45-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00-12.30: Modelling continues, Verification and validation
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.15: Verification and validation continues, Methods for design
14.15-14.30: Coffee Break
14.30-15.15: Methods for design continues
15.15-15.30: Coffee Break
15.30-16.00: Documentation, Stress Concentrations, Continous Strength Method
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Practical information
Time: Tuesday March 10. 2026
Venue: Thon Hotel Slottsparken, Oslo, and with the opportunity to participate digitally via Teams
Participation fee:
kr. 6 100 for members in Norsk Stålforbund, NFS or YSN
kr. 8 400 for non-members
Quantity discount -10% for a minimum of 3 participants from the same company when registering together
Registration deadline: Friday March 6., 1600 pm
Administrasjon:
NFS sekretariat
c/o Norsk Stålforbund,
Telefon: 41 02 15 98
e-post: post@stalforbund.com
