NASCC 2018 Wrap Up
NASCC 2018 (#NASCC18) hosted by the AISC, was held in downtown Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore Convention Center. Another record crowd with over 5,000 attendees, the show featured more than 200 exhibitors and 100s of...
Read moreTop Five Reasons to Use Composite HSS
Composite HSS, or concrete-filled tubes (CFT) as it is sometimes referred, is an underutilized form of design and construction that has several advantages. The most common use is for columns supporting traditional steel framing or other floor systems such as Delta Beam with precast concrete planks. Let’s explore the top five reasons you...
Read moreWhat the Spec: Minimum Yield of ASTM A500
You’ve designed structures with HSS products throughout your career and enjoy using them – whether it is their greater design properties in both axis, or how they are particularly suited for compression column applications, HSS’s popularity continues to grow every year. And whenever we have tours at one of our manufacturing facilities acro...
Read moreHSS Project Spotlight: Seattle’s North Transfer Station
HSS Project Spotlight: Seattle’s North Transfer Station What images com...
Read moreHSS Design Tools: The HSS Library
HSS Design Tools: The HSS Library There’s a lot of information around the internet on HSS products – so much so that it’s hard to...
Read moreDesigning with HSS: The Availability of ASTM A1085 High Performance HSS
Every tradeshow or meeting I attend, a few engineers tell me about their experience specifying A1085 on a project: “My fabricator told me...
Read moreHSS Project Spotlight: Skydance Bridge
If you have visited Atlas Tube’s website or read up on our literature recently, you may have noticed an interesting structure that we’ve showcased that was made from HSS. That structu...
Read moreDesigning with HSS: ASTM A1085 Specification Pocket Reference Guide
ASTM A1085 was developed to improve performance issues related to HSS used in seismic and bridge applications and to make HSS more economical and efficient, raising the bar for construction—...
Read moreTop 5 Features of the Atlas Pipe Pile App
There is a lot to think about when you are working on a deep foundations project – from the type of soil you are facing to how far into the ground you need to drill to stabilize, the last thing you want to think about is which ERW straight seam pipe pile to use at the job site. That’s why we came up with a mobile...
Read moreA Guide to A1085 (Frequently Asked Questions)
As I travel the country talking to colleagues, I get a lot of questions about A1085. Since some of the same questions come up time and time again, I thought it would be helpful if I wrote them down as part of a “Frequently Asked Questions” guide to A1085. I hope you find this FAQ helpful when designing with A1085 on your next project....
Read more