Building Construction Handbook, Eighth Edition

Structural Steelwork ~ standard section references:

BS 4-1: Structural steel sections. Specification for hot rolled sections.

BS EN 10056: Specification for structural steel equal and unequal
angles.

BS EN 10210: Hot finished structural hollow sections of non-alloy
and fine grain steels.

Typical Standard Steelwork Sections ~

NB. Sizes given are serial or nominal, for actual sizes see relevant BS.

width

constant dim. for each serial

size constant

dimension for each serial

size

width

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92ƒ 52′

or 90ƒ 90ƒ

root radius root radius

flange

flange

127 x 76 x 13 kg/m to

914 x 419 x 388 kg/m

UNIVERSAL COLUMNS

depth depth

width width breadth

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95ƒ 95ƒ

root

radius

JOISTS CHANNELS HOLLOW SECTIONS

root

radius

flange

flange

toe

radius

toe radius

depth depth depth

wall

90ƒ 90ƒ

root

radius

EQUAL ANGLES UNEQUAL ANGLES HOLLOW SECTIONS

root

radius

A B

A

A

flange flange

toe

radius

toe

radius

diameter

wall

UNIVERSAL BEAMS

152 x 152 x 23 kg/m to

356 x 406 x 634 kg/m

25 x 25 x 1.2 kg/m to

200 x 200 x 71.1 kg/m

40 x 25 x 1.91 kg/m to

200 x 150 x 47.1 kg/m

21.3 dia. x 1.43 kg/m to

508 dia. x 194 kg/m

76 x 76 x 13 kg/m to

254 x 203 x 82 kg/m

100 x 50 x 10 kg/m to

430 x 100 x 64 kg/m

50 x 30 x 2.89 kg/m to

500 x 300 x 191 kg/m

Structural Steelwork---Standard Hot Rolled Sections