Technical Committee on Steel and Concrete Structures
Working Group on Steel Structures
Preface
1 Scope
2 Reference publications
3 Definitions, abbreviations, and symbols
3.1 Definitions
3.2 Abbreviations
3.3 Symbols
4 Drawings and documents
4.1 General
4.2 Design drawings
4.3 Arrangement drawings and specifications
4.4 Fabrication drawings and specifications
4.4.1 Fabrication drawings
4.4.2 Specifications
4.5 Shop drawings
4.6 As-built drawings
5 Materials
5.1 General
5.2 Steelmaking
5.3 Chemical composition
5.4 Mechanical properties
5.5 Extent of mechanical tests
5.6 Tolerances
5.7 Bolts, nuts, and washers
5.8 Documentation and identification
5.8.1 Quality assurance
5.8.2 Marking
5.8.3 Unidentified materials
6 Toughness requirements
6.1 General
6.2 Toughness testing
6.2.1 Base metal
6.2.2 Heat-affected zone and weld metal
6.2.3 Cast or forged base metal
7 Design requirements
7.1 General
7.2 Limit states
7.2.1 General
7.2.2 Ultimate limit states
7.2.3 Serviceability limit states
7.3 Other requirements
7.3.1 General
7.3.2 Structural integrity
7.3.3 Deflections, velocities, and accelerations
7.3.4 Stability of structures
7.3.5 Fracture control
7.3.6 Handling appurtenances
7.3.7 Damage due to freezing water
7.3.8 System ductility
7.3.9 Fluid tightness
8 Analysis of structure
8.1 General
8.2 Elastic analysis
8.3 Plastic analysis
8.4 Stability effects
8.5 Dynamic analysis
8.6 Tests
9 Dimensional criteria for members
9.1 Lengths of members
9.1.1 Lengths for analysis
9.1.2 Lengths for design
9.1.3 Effective lengths
9.2 Slenderness ratios
9.3 Width-thickness ratios of rolled shapes, hollow
structural sections, and plates
9.4 Gross and net areas of tension members
10 Member resistances
10.1 General
10.2 Structural fabricated tubular members
10.3 Rolled shapes and hollow structural sections
10.4 Resistance of stiffened plate panels and composite walls
10.5 Cylindrical shells
10.5.1 General
10.5.2 Unstiffened circular cylinders - Structural
fabricated tubular members
10.5.3 Cylinders, shells, and curved panels
10.5.4 Tensile stress limit state
10.6 Padeyes
11 Joint and connection resistances
11.1 Joints between circular fabricated tubular members
11.1.1 General
11.1.2 Simple joints
11.1.3 Overlap joints
11.1.4 Complex joints
11.1.5 Congested joints
11.1.6 Grouted joints
11.2 Hollow structural section joints
11.3 Other joints
11.4 Welds
11.5 Bolts
12 Stiffened plate panels
12.1 Scope
12.1.1 General
12.1.2 Forces
12.1.3 Resistance factor
12.2 Design for loads normal to the panel
12.2.1 Design of skin plate
12.2.2 Design of stiffeners
12.2.3 Design of girders
12.3 Design for in-plane forces
12.3.1 General
12.3.2 Design of skin plate
12.3.3 Longitudinal stiffener requirements
12.3.4 Design of stiffened plate
12.3.5 Girder requirements
12.4 Design for normal and in-plane forces
12.4.1 Design of skin plate
12.4.2 Design of stiffened plates and girders
13 Composite walls
13.1 General
13.2 Design forces
13.3 Analysis
13.3.1 Global load effects
13.3.2 Local load effects
13.4 Resistance factors
13.5 Material properties
13.6 Flexure due to transverse loads
13.6.1 General
13.6.2 Concrete strength in flexure
13.6.3 Steel strength in flexure
13.7 Shear due to transverse loads
13.8 Bearing
13.9 Axial load
13.10 In-plane flexure and shear
13.11 Two-way composite wall systems
13.12 Crack control
13.13 Fatigue resistance
14 Fatigue
14.1 General
14.2 Life
14.3 Scope of fatigue analysis
14.4 Joint classification
14.5 Stresses to be considered
14.6 Joints between structural fabricated tubular members
14.7 Joints of hollow structural section members
14.8 Allowable stress ranges
14.8.1 Basic design S-N curves
14.8.2 Basic S-N curves (N <= 10[7] cycles)
14.8.3 Basic S-N curves (N > 10[7] cycles)
14.9 Modifications to basic S-N curves
14.9.1 Seawater effects
14.9.2 Thickness effects
14.9.3 Weld improvement
14.10 Cast or forged steel components
14.11 Fracture mechanics
15 Corrosion and abrasion protection
15.1 General
15.2 Protection in the atmospheric zone
15.3 Protection in the splash zone
15.4 Protection in the submerged zone
15.4.1 Application
15.4.2 Impressed current systems
15.4.3 Sacrificial anode systems
15.4.4 Operational system checks on impressed current
systems
15.5 Drawings and records
15.6 Inspection requirements
15.7 Coating systems
16 Connection and bolting details
16.1 Connection details for other joints
16.2 Connections using high-strength bolts
17 Welding
17.1 General
17.2 Processes
17.3 Material requirements
17.4 Certification
17.5 Resistance of welds
17.6 Fabrication
17.7 Inspection
17.8 Repairs
17.9 Underwater welding
18 Tolerances of as-built structures
18.1 General
18.2 Structural fabricated tubular members
18.3 Plate structures
18.4 Rolled shapes and hollow structural sections
18.5 Built-up members
18.6 Welded members
18.7 Compression members
18.8 Trusses
19 Fabrication and construction
19.1 General
19.2 Identification
19.3 Straightness of material
19.4 Thermal cutting
19.5 Sheared or thermal cut edge finish
19.6 Holes for bolts or other mechanical fasteners
19.7 Bolted construction
19.8 Adequacy of temporary connections
19.9 Alignment
19.10 Finishing of bearing surfaces
19.11 Storage of materials
19.12 Heat treatment
20 Cleaning, surface preparation, and priming
20.1 General
20.2 Surface preparation
21 Inspection
21.1 General
21.2 Rejection
21.3 Inspection of welding
21.4 Inspection of high-strength bolted joints
Annexes
A (normative) - Supplementary requirements for CSA W59
B (normative) - Additional requirements for the qualification
of welders, welding operations, and welding procedures
C (normative) - Toughness qualification tests
D (informative) - Heat-affected zone crack tip opening
displacement testing: Guidance on joint details and
notch placement
E (informative) - Examples of structural element toughness
classifications for fixed structures
Tables
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