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AD 369: Steel bearing piles – Pile driving formulae and driving resistance
This Advisory Desk Note provides guidance on the use of pile driving formulae commonly encountered when considering the design and installation of steel …
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 …
