Corus sections - standalone interactive 'blue book'

Description of software

The Corus Desktop Interactive Blue Book is an electronic version of the SCI Blue Book but with a number of enhanced features.

The Advance® name covers the full range of hot rolled sections manufactured by Corus for the UK market, (channels, angles, tees and bearing piles as well as beams and columns). Increasingly a least weight structural design approach does not necessarily mean least cost in whole building terms.

Often structural depth has a major impact on overall cost due to the high cost of the building envelope. Where services are to be integrated with the structure a beam sized specifically for the passage of those services is often appropriate. The Advance® range gives designers the flexibility to achieve the most effective structural solution from our hot rolled sections.

Celsius® 355 hot finished structural hollow sections are supplied in a standard grade of S355 J2H in accordance with the European Standard for hot finished structural hollow sections EN 10210: 2006 plus an improved corner profile of 2T maximum. Celsius S355J2H is suitable for all internal and external applications to BS5950-1:2000, BS5400, EN 1993, and all equivalent national and international steel design standards. The range includes circular, square, rectangular and the new elliptical hollow sections.

Hybox® 355 cold formed structural hollow sections are supplied in a standard grade of S355 J2H in accordance with the European Standard for cold formed structural hollow sections, EN10219: 2006. These sections fully comply with the structural design requirements of BS5950-1 and the European product standard EN10219 S355J2H. The range includes circular, square, and rectangular hollow sections.

The Interactive ‘Blue Book’ includes the following features -

• Location of Section properties, effective section properties, section tolerance and section load carrying performance information through a simple tree structure for each section range.
• Enables designers to quickly switch steel grades between those available for the section range (e.g. Advance® 275 and Advance® 355 for the Advance® section range).
• Once a table for a particular section type and size has been located the designer can rapidly look at other performance tables for that section by using the ‘Related Tables’ option.
• Enables the designer to look at the technical notes associated with the tables viewed.
• Provides a wide range of customisation options from selection of tables and behaviours through to working environment settings. The Interactive Blue Book will ‘remember’ these personalised settings and the position of the user within the Blue Book between sessions.
• Provides an automatic update service for users connected to the Internet.
• Enables designers to print the current section table data for design files.
• Enables designers to select, cut and paste design information into other applications.

The Interactive Blue Book software and content are carefully quality assured.

• All design information given in the Interactive Blue Book is in accordance with the appropriate parts of BS 5950 : Part 1 (2000).
• All design data is generated from the root software functions used to populate SCI 202: Steelwork Design Guide to BS 5950-1: 2000. Volume 1 - Section Properties - Member Capacities. 7th Edition.
• The SCI carries an audit trail describing the methods used to arrive at information within the product and the testing undertaken on contributing software functions, together with testing of the out-turn figures.
• The SCI provides a free update service for the software to ensure that the design data represented in the product is up-to-date (see Notes below).
  

Revision History

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How to download the Interactive Blue Book

1) Download Version 3 by clicking the Download button at the base of this page.

2) Install Version 3

Please Note: Users of the software are advised to register the software using the simple e-mail based registration process. If users are not connected to the internet it is possible to use the software in the unregistered mode.  If the software is unable to access the Internet the software is unable to check itself for currency. In these circumstances users are advised that the SCI/Corus are unable to provide ongoing quality assurance on the product provided.

Terms and Conditions of Use

SELECTING "DOWNLOAD" BELOW CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THEM, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THE SOFTWARE.

1. RIGHT TO USE

Subject to your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions as set forth above, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use this Program for the sole purpose of assisting in the selection or specification of products described in the program. This Program, and all related rights and patents, copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual property, are and shall remain the sole property of Corus UK Limited ["Corus"] or The Steel Construction Institute ["SCI"]. You agree not to copy, reverse compile or engineer, disassemble, or otherwise use this program, or permit others to do so, other than as specifically authorised in these Terms and Conditions.

2. UPDATES

There are currently updates for this program. Version 3 is available by clicking the Download button at the base of this page.

3. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPPLY

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH NO WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, REPRESENTATIONS OR CONDITIONS. In no event shall Corus be liable for any direct or indirect, consequential, special, financial or economic losses, damages, costs claims or expenses (including any loss of profits) howsoever arising whether due to negligence or otherwise associated with the use, or inability to use, this Program. Risk in the use of this Program lies solely with the user. Corus' standard "Terms and Conditions of Sale" apply to all products sold by Corus.