CONTINENTAL STEEL PRODUCTS HANDBOOK

1 CONTINENTAL STEEL Pte Ltd 100 Gul Circle Singapore 629586. Tel: +65 68620033 Fax: +65 68616448, 68625963/4006. Web: PRODUCTS HANDBOOK . Structural STEEL 2006 Edition Subsidiary Companies: CONTINENTAL Hardware (M) Sdn Bhd Viewforth Trading and Engineering Pte Ltd Conblast Industries Pte Ltd Con-Struct Engineering Technology Pte Ltd . CONTENT. The Company 1. Profile 1. Services 2. Explanatory Notes 9. General information 9. Introduction 9. Materials - EN10025 : 2004 is the new European 10. standard for structural STEEL History of the standard 10.

2 The new standard EN 10025 : 2004 10. Grade designation systems 11. Grades, properties and nearest equivalents 13. Manufacturing tolerances 16. Comparison between general structural 17. STEEL specifications Section Properties 18. Dimensional units 21. Mass and force units 21. Comparison Between Hot Finished and Cold Formed Hollow Sections 22. Introduction 22. Specifications 22. Manufacture of hollow sections 23. Section properties 24. Structural performance 25. Compression resistance 26. Web bearing and buckling 26. Tension, shear and bending 26.

3 Summary 27. Fire resistance Externally protected columns Internally protected columns Cost comparisons Universal Beams and Columns General Rolling tolerances - EN 10034 : 1993. Metric sizes >>>. 27. 27. 28. 28. 31. 31. 32. 34. Imperial sizes 40. CONTINENTAL STEEL Pte Ltd . Cellular Beams 57. Section sizes 57. Castellated Beams 58. Section sizes 58. Structural Tees 63. General 63. Metric sizes 64. Imperial sizes 68. Bearing Piles 77. General 77. Metric sizes 78. Imperial sizes 80. Hot Finished Ellipcon Sections 83. General 83. Ellipcon sections 84.

4 Semi Ellipcon sections 85. Hot Finished Hollow Sections 87. General 87. Comparable specifications 87. Product specifications 88. Chemical composition 88. Mechanical properties 88. Tensile test 88. Charpy V-notch impact test 88. Manufacturing tolerances 89. Other specifications 90. Circular sections 91. Square sections 96. Rectangular sections 100. Cold Formed Hollow Sections 105. General 105. Comparable specifications 105. Product specifications 106. Chemical composition 106. Mechanical properties 106. Tensile test 106. Charpy V-notch impact test 106.

5 Manufacturing tolerances 107. Other specifications 107. CONTINENTAL STEEL Pte Ltd . Circular sections Square sections Rectangular sections . >>>>.. 108. 111. 116. Channels 119. Rolling tolerances - EN 10279 : 2000 119. Tapered Flange 120. Metric sizes 120. Imperial sizes 121. Parallel Flange 124. Purlins 125. General 125. Introduction 125. Material specifications 125. Storage and handling 126. Holing and cleating for C Purlins 127. Plain Channels 129. Lipped Channels 130. High-Tensile Galvanised C Purlins 132. High-Tensile Galvanised Z Purlins 133.

6 Angles 135. Rolling tolerances - EN 10056-2 : 1993 135. Equal Angles 136. Unequal Angles 138. Bars 139. Flat Bars 139. Square Bars 141. Deformed and Round Bars 142. Plates 143. Product specifications 143. Main specifications 143. List of standard specifications 144. Mild STEEL Plates 148. Chequered Plates 149. Pipes 153. JIS G3452 (1988) SGP 153. BS 1387 (1985) 154. API 5L (1991) and ASTM A53 (1997) 156. Chemical composition 156. Mechanical properties 156. Section sizes 157. CONTINENTAL STEEL Pte Ltd . STEEL Sheet Piles 169. PU STEEL Sheet Piles 169.

7 Mechanical properties 169. Dimensions and sectional properties 169. Interlocking options 170. Dimensional tolerances 170. Handling holes and double piles 170. KSP STEEL Sheet Piles 171. Mechanical properties 171. Dimensions and sectional properties 171. Interlocking options 172. Dimensional tolerances 172. Recommended maximum lengths for driving 172. KSP Straight Web Sections 173. Mechanical properties 173. Dimensions and sectional properties 173. Dimensional tolerances 174. Gratings General 175. Sizes 175. Appendix Conversion factors 177.

8 CONTINENTAL STEEL Pte Ltd . LIST OF TABLE. Note: Section tables are not numbered and put in the list, except from High-Tensile Galvanised C and Z Purlins, Mild STEEL Plates, Chequered Plates, API 5L (1991) and ASTM A53 (1997) pipes, STEEL Sheet Piles to EN 10248:1996 and Other STEEL Sheet Piles. Table 1 - EN 10025 : part 2 : 2004 Non-alloy structural steels 13. Table 2 - EN 10025 : part 3 : 2004 Normalised/normalised rolled 14. Table 3 - EN 10025 : part 4 : 2004 Thermo mechanically rolled 14. Table 4 - EN 10025 : part 5 : 2004 Structural steels with improved atmospheric 15.

9 Table 5 - EN 10025 : part 6 : 2004 Flat PRODUCTS of high yield strength structural steels 15. Table 6 - Comparison between general structural STEEL specifications 17. Table 7 - Conditions for welding cold-deformed zones and adjacent material 25. Table 8 - Fire resistance: Cost comparison - universal columns vs. circular hollows 29. Table 9 - Fire resistance: Cost comparison - universal columns vs. rectangular hollows 29. Table 10 - Universal Beams and Columns: Standard specifications 31. Table 11 - Structural Tees: Standard specifications 63.

10 Table 12 - Bearing Piles: Standard specifications 77. Table 13 - Hot Finished Hollow Sections: Comparable specifications 87. Table 14 - Hot Finished Hollow Sections: Mechanical properties 88. Table 15 - Hot Finished Hollow Sections: Manufacturing tolerances 89. Table 16 - Cold Formed Hollow Sections: Comparable specifications 105. Table 17 - Cold Formed Hollow Sections: Mechanical properties 106. Table 18 - Cold Formed Hollow Sections: Manufacturing tolerances 107. Table 19 - Purlins: Material specifications and tolerances 125. Table 20 - Purlins: Tolerances on length and thickness 126.