THE EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 1337 ON STRUCTURAL BEARINGS

After more than 15 years of work, the European Standard for Structural Bearings is now completed, all parts have been approved by formal vote and published. The author, that already referred about the work progress during the previous editions of the Congress in Toronto, Sacramento and Rome, is now able to comment the final version of the Standard. EN 1337 covers all kind of bearings: elastomeric, pot, rocker, roller, spherical and cylindrical and in addition fixed and movable restraints. For the preparation of the Standard more than 60 experts of many European Countries gave their contribution actively participating to the meetings of the Technical Committee CEN TC 167 and of