Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
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In this thread UcfSE is US based and was looking to specify a steel grade in Europe.
thread404-381450: Specifying EN materials
I am now in the reverse situation. I need to specify a material grade for some steel to be fabricated in Houston. At home this would simply be called out as S355J2+N to BS EN 10025. In the US, is it as straightforward as calling up an ASTM number? Or do I need to give toughness conditions, delivery conditions etc separately?
In addition, I assume all the dimensions need to be in inches? Are decimalized inches ok or does it need to be fractional?
Fabrication would be in accordance with AWS D1.1, which we use here anyway from time to time, but is there a specific code for symbolic representation of welding. We use BS EN ISO 2553 for instance.
thread404-381450: Specifying EN materials
I am now in the reverse situation. I need to specify a material grade for some steel to be fabricated in Houston. At home this would simply be called out as S355J2+N to BS EN 10025. In the US, is it as straightforward as calling up an ASTM number? Or do I need to give toughness conditions, delivery conditions etc separately?
In addition, I assume all the dimensions need to be in inches? Are decimalized inches ok or does it need to be fractional?
Fabrication would be in accordance with AWS D1.1, which we use here anyway from time to time, but is there a specific code for symbolic representation of welding. We use BS EN ISO 2553 for instance.






RE: Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
RE: Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
http://msc.aisc.org/globalassets/modern-steel/arch...
For run-of-the-mill stuff, A36 and A992 will cover it.
If the fabricator will make up shop drawings anyway, then you'd have more leeway in how you do things; ie, metric or not, decimal inches or not.
RE: Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
For US weld symbols, see AWS D2.4 https://pubs.aws.org/p/1040/a242012-standard-symbo.... The following links will provide most everything needed even though they are from older versions of A2.4 (not much changes): https://app.aws.org/mwf/attachments/64/225364/AWSW... and https://app.aws.org/technical/errata/A2.4errata.pd...
For information on specifications, you might want to look at AISC 303, Code of Standard Practice for Buildings and Bridges. It is a free download at https://www.aisc.org/content.aspx?id=2884#code
RE: Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
At home in the UK this is typically designed using AISC (at little odd but it is common to use US specs as the US dominates the Oil and Gas Industry), so this will be no different.
I assume 50ksi plate is readily available? 12mm plate being 1/2", 15mm plate being 10/16"?
RE: Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.
RE: Steel Fabrication in the US - Designed and Drawn in Europe.