BS 5950-1:2000

Committees responsible
Foreword
Section 1 - General
            1.1 Scope
            1.2 Normative references
            1.3 Terms and definitions
            1.4 Major symbols
            1.5 Other materials
            1.6 Design documents
            1.7 Reference to BS 5400-3
Section 2 - Limit states design
            2.1 General principles and design methods
            2.2 Loading
            2.3 Temperature change
            2.4 Ultimate limit states
            2.5 Serviceability limit states
Section 3 - Properties of materials and section
            properties
            3.1 Structural steel
            3.2 Bolts and welds
            3.3 Steel castings and forgings
            3.4 Section properties
            3.5 Classification of cross-sections
            3.6 Slender cross-sections
Section 4 - Design of structural members
            4.1 General
            4.2 Members subject to bending
            4.3 Lateral-torsional buckling
            4.4 Plate girders
            4.5 Web bearing capacity, buckling
                 resistance and stiffener design
            4.6 Tension members
            4.7 Compression members
            4.8 Members with combined moment and
                 axial force
            4.9 Members with biaxial moments
            4.10 Members in lattice frames
                 and trusses
            4.11 Gantry girders
            4.12 Purlins and side rails
            4.13 Column bases
            4.14 Cased sections
            4.15 Web openings
            4.16 Separators and diaphragms
            4.17 Eccentric loads on beams
Section 5 - Continuous structures
            5.1 General
            5.2 Global analysis
            5.3 Stability out-of-plane for
                 plastic analysis
            5.4 Continuous beams
            5.5 Portal frames
            5.6 Elastic design of multi-storey
                 rigid frames
            5.7 Plastic design of multi-storey
                 rigid frames
Section 6 - Connections
            6.1 General recommendations
            6.2 Connections using bolts
            6.3 Non-preloaded bolts
            6.4 Preloaded bolts
            6.5 Pin connections
            6.6 Holding-down bolts
            6.7 Welded connections
            6.8 Design of fillet welds
            6.9 Design of butt welds
Section 7 - Loading tests
            7.1 General
            7.2 Test conditions
            7.3 Test procedures
            7.4 Relative strength coefficient
            7.5 Proof test
            7.6 Strength test
            7.7 Failure test
Annex A (informative) - Safety format in BS 5950-1 and
                        references to BS 5400-3
Annex B (normative) - Lateral-torsional buckling of
                      members subject to bending
Annex C (normative) - Compressive strength
Annex D (normative) - Effective lengths of columns
                      in simple structures
Annex E (normative) - Effective lengths of compression
                      members in continuous structures
Annex F (normative) - Frame stability
Annex G (normative) - Members with one flange
                      laterally restrained
Annex H (normative) - Web buckling resistance
Annex I (normative) - Combined axial compression
                      and bending
Bibliography

Gives recommendations for the design of structural steelwork using hot rolled steel sections, flats, plates, hot finished structural hollow sections and cold formed structural hollow sections, in buildings and allied structures not specifically covered by other standards.