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Steel design since 1932
Successive editions of BS 449 illustrate significant changes in steel design and practice over the last 90 years. For a recent project, the design rules since …
Design of Angles
David Brown of the SCI offers advice on the use of angles in bending, in response to questions received by the advisory service. Angles subject to bending are …
New Steel Construction Technical Digest now available online
New Steel Construction’s (NSC) third Technical Digest, which brings together a year’s worth of technical guidance, is now available for download at: …
Members subject to combined bending and compression
David Brown of the SCI reviews the options and available resources that can be used to simplify the design checks and determine the required resistance data. …
Bending and Compression to BS 5950 and BS EN 1993-1-1
Armed with a copy of the new “Blue Book” David Brown looks at the tables of member resistances – this time combined bending and compression. In order to …
Web Bearing and Buckling to BS EN 1993-1 + Buckling modes of angles and channels in compression
The development of the new Blue Book on member resistances highlighted some new methods. Edurne Nunez Moreno of the SCI explains the background to two of the …
AD 311: T-sections in bending – stem in compression
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this advisory desk, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
Design of Mono-symmetric and Asymmetric Sections in Compression using BS 5950-1:2000
By Charles King, Senior Manager Codes and Standards at the Steel Construction Institute. In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this …