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| Title | Category | Date | Author | |
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| CMP1005: Suspended Slabs Level Tolerances | login to download | Composite | 07-Nov-08 | Kevin Cowie; Clark Hyland |
There are two issues to consider when specifying floor finish: flatness and levelness. Figure 1 illustrates the differences. This article considers levelness tolerances. Steel Advisor article CMP1004 discusses flatness tolerances... ... | ||||
| CTG1004: Durability of Attachments to Glass-Fibre Reinforced Concrete Panels | login to download | Coatings | 07-Nov-08 | Kevin Cowie |
Glass-fibre reinforce concrete (GRC) panels are a versatile and lightweight façade system. Various surface colours and textures are available, making GRC adaptable to numerous architectural applications. They can be designed with a face mix to achieve an appearance very similar ... | ||||
| ERC1002: Pre-Tensioning of High Strength Holding Down Rods | login to download | Erection & Construction | 02-May-08 | Kevin Cowie |
Holding down bolts are typically threaded rods of varying lengths. Tightening of the hold down bolts to achieve a minimum level of bolt pre-tension eliminates a potential source of undesirable connection flexibility. Such as in column base plate connections ... | ||||
| CTG1003: Preventable Coating Defects | login to download | Coatings | 01-May-08 | Raed El Sarraf |
This article identifies some preventable coating problems noticed on 7 year old coated steel structural elements. The steelwork is located a couple of kilometres from the sea within an Atmospheric Corrosivity Category (ACC) at the high end of D. ... | ||||
| ENV1001: Proceedings of the Sustainable Steel Construction Seminars April 2008 | login to download | Environment | 01-May-08 | Clark Hyland & Micheal Sansom |
At the beginning of April, 2008, Steel Construction New Zealand Inc., (SCNZ) ran seminars in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington under the theme ‘Sustainable Steel Construction’. The guest speaker was Dr Michael Sansom, senior manager of the Sustainability Group of ... | ||||
| GEN2001: Steel Structures Standard Revision - Construction | login to download | General | 01-May-08 | Allistair Fussel |
The current format of the Steel Structures Standard (SNZ 2007) is to be reconfigured. The standard will be broken into seven parts. The construction part will incorporate material selection, fabrication, corrosion protection and erection aspects of the Standard (SNZ 2007). ... | ||||
| CTR6004: Employment Opportunities on the SCNZ Website | login to download | Careers & Training | 01-May-08 | Simon Keown |
SCNZ members can now add employment opportunities to their member’s pages. An employment search is also available in the careers section of the website. Other additions are the addition of icons to indicate you will take: • Gateway School Students and/or • STAR School Students • Work ... | ||||
| ERC1001: High Strength Structural Bolting | login to download | Erection & Construction | 01-May-08 | Clark Hyland |
High strength structural bolting offers significant benefits to erection of structural steelwork. It is relatively quick and can be executed on site in all sorts of conditions. However to achieve reliable structural performance the quality of the bolt ... | ||||
| MAT1002: New Performance Requirements for Seismic Steel | login to download | Materials | 01-May-08 | Clark Hyland |
Amendment 2 of the Steel Structures Standard NZS 3404:1997 released in October 2007 (SNZ, 2007) sets new requirements for steel materials and welding of seismic resisting steelwork that is required to sustain significant plastic deformation under design earthquake events. These ... | ||||
| CMP1001: How to Use SteelDeck | login to download | Composite | 28-Nov-07 | Xiao Huantian |
The SteelDeck software based on the British Standard BS 5950 Part 4 was developed to aid engineers in the task of designing simply supported composite slabs for point loading. A design example consisting of al shelf pallet rack supported on ... | ||||
