Cold-Formed Steel Codes and Standards

This wiki (editable page) was created so that a large group of people could contribute to developing a list of the cold-formed steel codes and standards that are in use around the world. To aid in the development of this list Ben Schafer (schafer@jhu.edu) sent an initial email to members of the following organizations: CFSEI, SSRC TG 13, ASCE-SEI CFS, AISI-COS, AISI-COFS.

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Africa

Ethiopia

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown

 

Americas

United States

Specification: North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members. American Iron and Steel Institute (http://tinyurl.com/yq5wzo) latest version now numbered as AISI-S100-07, 2007 version nearing final approval as of June 2007.

Building Code: International Building Code, International Code Council (http://www.iccsafe.org/) local building codes and/or NFPA may also be enforced, but the IBC is as close to a national building code as exists in the United States, both IBC and NFPA reference AISI.

Canada

Specification: S136, full details needed (http://www.csa-intl.org/onlinestore/GetCatalogItemDetails.asp?mat=000000000002415602)

Building Code: National Building Code of Canada (http://www.nationalcodes.ca/nbc/index_e.shtml)

Puerto Rico

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown - but the ICC has a Puerto Rico field office (http://www.iccsafe.org/government/international.html) so likely one can use ICC for the building code. If so, then this means the U.S. Spec. would be applicable for cold-formed steel.

Mexico

Specification: North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members, full details needed

Building Code: Unknown

Brazil

Specification: NBR 14762:2001 Dimensionamento de estruturas de aço constituídas por perfis formados a frio - Procedimento (Cold-formed steel design - Procedure, last update 2001) and NBR 6355:2003 Perfis estruturais de aço formados a frio - Padronização (Cold-formed steel structural profiles, last update 2003)

Building Code: ABNT - Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (www.abnt.org.br)

Asia

India

Specification: Unknown

Building Code : IS 801(under revision)

China

(Added by Gaoning Wang) 

Specification: Technical Code of Cold-formed Thin-wall Steel Structures

Building Code: GB 50018-2002 (current version)

Japan

Specification: Design Manual of Light-gauge Steel Structures

Building Code: Technical standard notification No.1641 concerning light-gauge steel structures

Singapore

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown

Middle East (Asia)

Europe 

EU Countries

(Added by C. van Zandwijk M.Sc.) 

Specification:  

• EN 1993-1-3 (same as Eurocode 3 part 1-3), Design of steel structures - Cold formed thin gauge members and sheeting
• General information www.CEN.eu and www.NEN.nl
• Each European country will get it's own National Annex Documents (NAD) 

Finland

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown 

France

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown 

Germany

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown 

Italy

(Added by R. Landolfo)

Specification:

UNI CNR 10022 (National Document)

EN 1993-1-3 (Not compulsory)

Building Code: Unknown 

The Netherlands

(Added by C. van Zandwijk M.Sc.) 

Specification:  

• NEN 6773 - Steel Structures, Basic requirements and rules for calculations of thin gauge sections. (NEN means "Nederlandse Norm")
• All NEN codes will be replaced by Eurocodes in the next few years. Assumption: Januari 2008 introduction of Eurocode, (NEN also allowed). Januari 2010 only Eurocodes allowed
• Alternatively use for Eurocode: NEN-EN or NEN-ENV which means "Europese Norm" (European Code) and "Europese Norm Voorlopig (pre European Code) 

Building Codes: 

• NEN-EN 1993-1-1   Technical building principles for building structures (replaces NEN 6770, NEN 6771)
• NEN-EN 1993-1-2   Determination by calculation of fire resistance of building elements (replaces NEN 6072)
• NEN-EN 1993-1-3   Cold formed thin gauge members and sheeting (replaces NEN 6773)
• NEN-EN 1993-1-4   Rules and requirements for stainless steels
• NEN-EN 1993-1-5   Stiffened plating subjected to in plane loading
• NEN-EN 1993-1-6   Strenght and stabiliy of steel shells
• NEN-EN 1993-1-7   Stiffenend plating subjected to out plane bending
• NEN-EN 1993-1-8   Rules and requirements for connections (replaces NEN 6772, NEN 2062)
• NEN-EN 1993-1-9   Fatigue
• NEN-EN 1993-1-10 Requirements for steel quality i.r.t. brittle fracture of statical loaded structures (replaces NEN 6774)
• NEN-EN 1993-1-11 Rules and requirements for tensional loaded elements 

United Kingdom

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown 

Hungary

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown 

Turkey

Specification: Unknown

Building Code: Unknown

Portugal

Specification: Eurocode 3 Part 1.3 (info from D. Camotim)

Building Code: Unknown

Oceania

Australia

Specification: AS/NZS 4600 

AS/NZS 4600:2005  Similar to NAS 2007  but includes high strength steels such as G550 for all sections. (Greg Hancock)

Building Code: Building Code of Australia  (National document) calls AS/NZS 4600:2005

NewZealand

Contributors

Ben Schafer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States (schafer@jhu.edu)

Luiz Vieira, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States (luizvieirajr@gmail.com)

Cor van Zandwijk, CFP Engineering, Nieuw-Beijerland, The Netherlands (info@CFPengineering.com)

Dinar Camotim

Gregory Hancock

Raffaele Landolfo

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