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 Brown of the SCI presents the results of the project comparing the behaviour of fin plate connections with both S275 and S355 fin plates.

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