Year: 2010

PART 2 By Spencer Erling, Education Director, SAISC Please do not misconstrue this article as a gripe, winge, moan from the Institute team. There is no doubt that we are having a go at the guilty parties. Yes, this is definitely “many a true word said in jest” article. But not every entrant is having […]

By Linda Ness PrEng., Linda Ness Associates (Edited by Spencer Erling) The stadium bowl façade is a uniquely designed system which embodies the visual simplicity and transparency of the iconic stadium structure, which itself is a beautifully engineered achievement. Peaking at 40m high off the elevated podium, 20 000m2 of perforated powder-coated aluminium standing seam […]

By Spencer Erling, Education Director, SAISC Steel Awards really is a big annual issue for the Institute. We have just come out of phases I, II and III of the 2010 process, namely to get the entries submitted, processed into our system and adjudicated. And before you ask, yes I do know the results, but […]

By Spencer Erling, Education Director, SAISC It may come as a surprise to engineers and fabricators alike that tube to tube welds are not just a simple ‘all welds 6mm continuous fillet weld’ that we so often see on drawings. The fact of the matter is that when we weld a ‘branch member’ (a truss […]

By Spencer Erling Education Director, SAISC Tubular construction is not exactly a new science. As early as the 1890’s iconic bridges such as the rail bridge over the Firth of Forth between England and Wales was constructed using circular hollow like sections for the main components. Of course in those long gone days welding was […]

By J.A. Packer Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada ABSTRACT: Diagonal bracings are extremely popular elements for lateral load resistance in steel-framed buildings. In turn, the most common shape used for bracing members is the hollow structural section. While the design of such members is straight-forward, the design of gusset-plate connections at the […]