Historical Steel Sections

Steel structural sections were available in very limited sizes from 1850 onwards but in 1880they had started to increase quickly in both size and quantity.

Historical steel sections. Code of standard practice. Carnegie beam sections profiles properties and safe loads for additions to new series of structural steel beams and column sections. It has a library of bsb and rsc steel sections which were used in uk and overseas since 1932.

Date time dimensions user comment. Click on a date time to view the file as it appeared at that time. For steel from the uk a very useful publication is the historical structural steelwork handbook bates 1984.

The intention of this new publication historical structural iron and steel sections properties of historical cast iron wrought iron and steel sections is not to rewrite that document but to build upon it with additional information. The largest commercial steelmaking enterprise nippon steel in japan was responsible for producing 26 million tons in 1987 and 11. Written by dr david gent historic structural iron and steel section builds upon and adds to the original publication.

Back then section names and properties were expressed in inches and pounds. Steel section sizes dimensions and properties. Specification for structural steel buildings.

Carnegie shape book profiles tables and data for rolled products shapes plates bars and rails. Carnegie steel company. Steel beam historical sections design spreadsheet to bs 5950.

Up until the mid 1960s a lot of structural steel used in new zealand was sourced from the united kingdom uk while a small amount of structural steelwork was sourced from united states of america usa. Steel steel history. Aisc home american institute of steel construction.