Technical
New and revised codes & standards: From BSI Updates July & August 2018
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 683-1:2018 Heat-treatable steels, alloy steels and free-cutting steels. Non-alloy steels for quenching and tempering Supersedes BS …
Buckling resistance of uniform members in bending
Richard Henderson of the Steel Construction Institute discusses the phenomenon of lateral-torsional buckling. In order to retain the accurate formatting of the …
AD 420: Minimum values of shear and bending moment in beams with web openings
Table 3.1 of SCI publication P355 gives minimum values of co-existent shear and bending moment to be used at beam openings. This AD provides clarity on how …
New and revised codes & standards: June 2018
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN 1011-8:2018 Welding. Recommendations for welding of metallic materials. Welding of cast irons Supersedes BS EN 1011-8:2004 CORRIGENDA …
AD 419: Composite beams with different positions of web openings
SCI publication P355 is widely used to design beams with large web openings. It is adopted in the development of software to design hot rolled and fabricated …
New and revised codes & standards, from BSI Updates May 2018
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 2081:2018 Metallic and other inorganic coatings. Electroplated coatings of zinc with supplementary treatments on iron or steel …
U-frames in bridges
Bridge designers will be familiar with compression flanges restrained by u-frames. David Brown of the SCI introduces the concept and illustrates the same …
New and revised codes & standards, from BSI updates April 2018
BS EN PUBLICATIONS BS EN ISO 9017:2018 Destructive tests on welds in metallic materials. Fracture test Supersedes BS EN ISO 9017:2013 BS EN ISO 13918:2018 …
AD 418: Web-post buckling in composite beams with rectangular and elongated web openings
The design of composite beams with large web openings is presented in SCI P355, which has been adopted in the development of software for the design of both …
The use of S355 fin plates
Increasing interest in the use of S355 for fin plates prompted questions about the stiffness of such connections – are they still nominally pinned? David …
