Technical
Fatigue of bracing in buildings
BS5950 states that buildings subject to fluctuating wind loads do not need to be checked for fatigue but EC3 contains no such statement. Richard Henderson of …
AD 431: Column web panel strengthening
The purpose of this Advisory Desk note is to draw attention to the contribution that full-depth stiffeners make to the shear resistance of column web panels. …
New and revised codes & standards: May 2019
BRITISH STANDARDS BS 7974 and PD 7974 Series Kit Fire Safety engineering. Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. No …
The design of crane girders
Recent correspondence in Verulam suggested that there were no decent examples of crane girder design to the Eurocodes. David Brown of the SCI rises to the …
New and revised codes & standards from BSI Updates April 2019
NEW WORK STARTED EN 1990 Eurocode. Basis of structural and geotechnical design Will supersede BS EN 1990:2002+A1:2005 ISO PUBLICATIONS ISO 17607-1 Steel …
AD 430: Wind load on unclad frames
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this technical paper, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
Stability and second order effects on steel structures – Part 2: design according to Eurocode 3
Ricardo Pimentel of the SCI illustrates the different methods provided by EN 1993-1-1 to address the topics of member stability, global frame stability and …
AD 429: Slip factors for alkali-zinc silicate paint
This AD note draws attention to the slip factors for alkali-zinc silicate painted faying surfaces considered in AD 383 which have been updated in the 2018 …
New and revised codes & standards – from BSI Updates March 2019
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 5817:2014 – Tracked Changes Welding. Fusion-welded joints in steel, nickel, titanium and their alloys (beam welding excluded). …
Stability and second order effects on steel structures: Part 1: fundamental behaviour
Ricardo Pimentel of the SCI introduces the topics of buckling phenomenon, second order effects and the approximate methods to allow for those effects. In part …
