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Guide to suppliers of stainless-steel sections

A British Stainless Steel Association product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 17, 2004

The British Stainless Steel Association has published a new, comprehensive directory of suppliers of stainless-steel sections to the UK market.

The British Stainless Steel Association has published a new, comprehensive directory of suppliers of stainless-steel sections to the UK market.

Covering the full range of sizes and product types - hot rolled, hot extruded, cold formed, welded and hollow sections - the directory not only distinguishes between producers and distributors, but also shows the main stainless-steel grades available from each supplier across the complete size range.

Duncan Munro Director of the BSSA commented: "While carbon steel sections are readily available in standard sizes from both mills and stockholders, it has traditionally been more difficult to procure stainless-steel sections due to lack of standardisation in what has been a relatively small and fragmented market".

"The need in the industry to address this has been recognised for some time".

"The BSSA has now taken a significant step towards meeting this requirement".

The directory can be downloaded and saved from the BSSA website, either in part or in full.

This new directory also crossreferences the specific products and properties included in the design tables section of "Structural design of stainless steel", a comprehensive source of practical design guidance from the Steel Construction Institute, which has been recently revised to incorporate recent advances in the understanding of the structural behaviour of stainless steel.

With BSSA sponsorship, SCI has developed interactive software to assist architects and designers wishing to calculate section properties and member capacities according to UK design codes, which is now available on the Internet free-of-charge at www.steel-stainless.org.

Additional design information for architects and engineers is also available on a CD-ROM published by Euro Inox, the European Stainless Steel Development Association, to which the BSSA is affiliated, containing the papers from the SCI symposium of international experts which met in the UK last year, to discuss recent research into the structural behaviour of stainless steel members, with particular emphasis on the behaviour of cold worked grades.

Copies of these publications may be obtained through the BSSA.

A CPD module on the structural use of stainless steel is due to be released later this year.

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