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BS 5400-6:1999 Steel, concrete and composite bridges - Specification for materials and workmanship, steel, 2002
- BRITISH STANDARD [Go to Page]
- Committees responsible for this British Standard
- Contents
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Materials [Go to Page]
- 3.1 Structural steels [Go to Page]
- Table 1 - Performance requirements for structural steels
- 3.2 Rivet steels
- 3.3 Steel for shear connectors
- 3.4 Bolts, nuts and washers [Go to Page]
- Table 2 - Matching structural bolts and nuts
- 3.5 Welding consumables
- 3.6 Rolled steel pins
- 3.7 Steel castings and cast steel pins
- 3.8 Steel forgings and forged steel pins
- 3.9 Stainless steel
- 3.10 Cast iron
- 4 Workmanship [Go to Page]
- 4.1 Interchangeability of parts
- 4.2 Fabrication tolerances
- 4.3 Preparation of edges, ends and surfaces
- 4.4 Bolts, nuts and washers [Go to Page]
- Table 3 - Requirements for high strength friction grip bolts
- 4.5 Holes for rivets and bolts
- 4.6 Rivets and riveting
- 4.7 Welding
- 4.8 Bending and pressing
- 4.9 Straightening and flattening
- 4.10 Forging
- 4.11 Tie rods
- 4.12 Parallel barrel drifts
- 4.13 Pins and pin holes
- 4.14 Camber
- 4.15 Marking for erection
- 4.16 Rectification of surface defects and edge laminations
- 5 Inspection and testing [Go to Page]
- 5.1 General
- 5.2 Testing of structural steel
- 5.3 Surface defects and edge laminations
- 5.4 Procedure trials [Go to Page]
- Table 4 - Heat affected zone test requirements for notch ductility in transverse butt welds
- 5.5 Production tests [Go to Page]
- Figure 1 - Definition of zones and weld orientations
- Table 5 - Examination levels to be used in the ultrasonic inspection of welds
- Table 6 - Acceptance limits for embedded discontinuities in welds [Go to Page]
- Figure 2 - Dimensions of discontinuities
- Figure 3 - Zones in joints having to comply with
- 5.6 Checking of deviations in rolled and built�up sections [Go to Page]
- Table 7 - Tolerance checking requirements
- 5.7 Checking of alignment at joints
- 5.8 Inspection and testing of rivets
- 5.9 Temporary erection at contractor’s works
- 6 Handling, transport and erection [Go to Page]
- 6.1 Handling and stacking
- 6.2 Packing for transport
- 6.3 Erection
- 7 Supply, measurement and weighing [Go to Page]
- 7.1 Computed weights
- 7.2 Weighbridge weights
- 7.3 Numbers of site rivets, bolts and nuts and service bolts [Go to Page]
- Table 8 - Tolerances
- Table 8 - Tolerances (continued)
- Table 8 - Tolerances (continued)
- Table 8 - Tolerances (continued)
- Annex A [Go to Page]
- Steel rivets
- A.1 Material [Go to Page]
- A.1.1 Requirements
- A.1.2 Tensile test
- A.1.3 Additional tests
- A.2 Tests on manufactured rivets [Go to Page]
- A.2.1 Bend test
- A.2.2 Flattening test [Go to Page]
- Figure A.1 - Rivet bend test
- Figure A.2 - Rivet flattening test
- A.2.3 Retests
- A.2.4 Reheat treatment
- A.3 Marking
- Annex B [Go to Page]
- Guidance clauses
- 3 Materials [Go to Page]
- 3.1 Structural steels
- 3.9 Stainless steel [Go to Page]
- 3.10.2 Malleable cast iron
- 4 Workmanship
- 4.2 Fabrication tolerances [Go to Page]
- 4.2.2 Rolled and built up sections
- 4.2.3 Flatness of a machined bearing surface
- 4.3.3 Flame cutting and shearing
- 4.3.6 Contact surfaces for high strength friction grip bolted connections
- 4.7.1 Welding of structural steels
- 4.7.3 Welding, flame cutting and shearing procedure trials
- 4.7.5 Repair of unacceptable weld discontinuities
- 4.10 Forging
- 5 Inspection and testing [Go to Page]
- 5.2.1 General
- 5.5.2 Non destructive testing of welds in and attached to principal structural steelwork [Go to Page]
- Figure B.1 - Test specimens for Charpy V notch impact tests, T butt weld, showing reorientation of plate
- Figure B.2 - Test specimens for Charpy V notch impact tests, corner butt weld, showing reorientation of plate
- Figure B.3 - Test specimens for Charpy V notch impact tests in the fusion boundary region of the HAZ, showing ... [Go to Page]