Shelf angle floor beams in fire
Mark Lawson, Consultant to The Steel Construction Institute, discusses the resistance of unprotected shelf angle floor beams at elevated..
This month’s features
Technical
AD 453: Accumulated deviations in erected steelwork
Questions about tolerances continue to arrive at SCI’s Advisory Desk – often concerning the potential to sum all the possible..
New and revised codes & standards, from BSI Updates October 2020
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS 8579:2020 Guide to the design of balconies and terraces no current standard is superseded BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN..
New and revised codes & standards from BSI Updates September 2020
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 23387:2020 Building information modelling (BIM). Data templates for construction objects used in the life..
Design of beam-column splice connections according to Eurocode 3
Ricardo Pimentel of the SCI discusses the design of beam-column splice connections considering second-order effects due to combined..
AD450: Resistance of composite slabs to concentrated loads
EN 1994-1-1 clause 9.4.3 is entitled effective width of composite slabs under concentrated point and line loads. It has been the cause of..
The development of design rules for restrained columns
Following on from the previous two articles, David Brown of the SCI looks back at the development of design rules for restrained columns...
AD 448: Support to profiled steel decking
It is now over ten years since the revised edition of P300 was published by SCI. This work, in collaboration with the Metal Cladding and..
New and revised codes & standards – from BSI Updates August 2020
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 1182:2020 Reaction to fire tests for products. Non-combustibility test supersedes BS EN ISO 1182:2010 BS EN..
Restraints around portal frames
In this second technical article on portal frames, David Brown of the Steel Construction Institute reviews the all-important correct..