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AD 368: Shear resistance of I-sections in P363
This Advisory Desk Note provides clarification and further guidance on the design shear resistance values given in SCI P363 Steel building design: Design data …
AD 367: Construction loading for composite slabs – update to P364
This Advisory Desk Note provides clarification about the different design approaches adopted in worked examples in SCI publications P359 and P364. Although the …
AD 366: Bolts and Pins – Background information ASM 22.3.12
This advisory desk note provides background information on the design issues for bolts and pins, and why there are different design rules for each component. …
AD 365: Welding of shear studs to galvanized steel beams
This Advisory Desk note confirms the advice that shear studs should not be welded to hot-dipped galvanized beams. This advice at first appears to contradict …
AD 364: Welding stainless steel
This Advisory Desk Note provides guidance on welding stainless steel and gives references for further information. Stainless steel can be readily welded to …
AD 363: Geotechnical actions on structures – choice of partial factors
BS EN 1990:2002, Eurocode – Basis of structural design, sets out rules for the determination of design values of the effects of actions on structures. The …
AD 361: Mono pitched portal frames in fire boundary conditions
In SCI publication P313, Single Storey Steel Framed Buildings in Fire Boundary Conditions, Section 2.5.4 gives guidance on the calculation of overturning …
AD 360: Movement joints in steel-framed buildings
The Advisory Desk is asked, from time to time, for guidance on movement joints in steel framed buildings. Most of the queries seek guidance on the detailing of …
AD 359: Weathering steel bolts
European bolt standards do not specifically cover weathering steel bolts – i.e. bolts of material similar to that of ‘structural steels with improved …
AD 358: Design thickness of cold formed members and sheeting
The purpose of this Advisory Desk Note is to highlight the existence of, and explain the implications of, an important but often over-looked definition in BS …
