Resources for Structural Steelwork Design

Resources for Structural Steelwork Design

The ASI has a substantial body of resources available to support design of structural steelwork.  

Listed below are specific resources in various areas of steelwork design. The following website resources can also be used for in-depth access to a range of further reading: 

The ASI's resources are extensive and may be difficult to find quickly through navigation of the website alone. We have invested in advanced search functionality for the website and encourage you to use this search functionality as the primary means of retrieving information. You will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is!

For your convenience we have assembled below a selection of the resources available in specific areas: 

Structural steelwork member and framework design and fabrication

Design capacity tables for structural steel, V1: Open sections, 5th Ed. 2016  

 

Design of portal frame buildings including crane runway beams and monorails, 5th Ed. 2023 

 

Worked examples for steel structures, 4th Ed. 2013

 

An engineers guide to fabricating steel structures, V1: Fabrication methods, 2022

 

An engineers guide to fabricating steel structures, V2: Successful welding of steel structures, 2022

 

Steel designer’s handbook, 8th Ed. 2012

 

Economical structural steelwork – Design of cost-effective steel structures, 5th Ed. 2009

 

Safe load tables for structural steel, 6th Ed. 1987 (working stress design, for pre-1991 buildings only)  

 

Cold-formed light-gauge member and structure design 

Design of cold-formed steel structures (to AS/NZS 4600:2005), 5th Ed. 

 

Design guide: Portal frame steel sheds and garages, 5th Ed.

 

Composite design

Design example for multistorey composite steel framed building, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design aspects for construction – Composite steel framed structures, 1st Ed. 2008

 

Connection design

Tubular design guide 20: Background and design basis, 1st Ed. 2014

 

Structural steel tubular connections series – 8 tubular design guides (in two folders)

 

Design capacity tables for structural steel, V3: Simple connections – Open sections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Handbook 1: Design of structural steel connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 1: Bolting in structural steel connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 2: Welding in structural steel connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 3: Web side plate connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 4: Flexible end plate connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 5: Angle cleat connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 6: Seated connections, 1st Ed. 2007

 

Design guide 7: Pinned base plate connections for columns, 1st Ed. 2011

 

Design capacity tables for structural steel V4, Rigid connections – Open sections, 1st Ed. 2009

 

Design guide 10: Bolted moment end plate beam splice connections, 1st Ed. 2009

 

Design guide 11: Welded beam to column moment connections, 1st Ed. 2009

 

Design guide 12: Bolted end plate to column moment connections, 1st Ed. 2009

 

Design guide 13: Splice connections, 1st Ed. 2009

 

Fire-engineering design

Guide to the use of fire protection materials (SC Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2008) 

 

Handbook of fire protection materials for structural steel, 1st Ed. 1990 

 

General

Tubular structures in architecture, 1st Ed. 2011

 

Australian steelwork corrosion and coatings guide, 2nd Ed. 2015

 

A guide to the requirements for engineering drawings of structural steel (SC Jnl Vol. 29 No. 3, 1995)

 

Australian steel detailers handbook, 1st Ed. 1999

 

Australia / New Zealand guide for specifying architecturally exposed structural steel, 1st Ed. 2012

 

Structural design – Steel bins for bulk solids, 1983 (working stress design)