SCI Blue Book

Essential Tool for On-Line Structural Designers

The recently released 7th Edition incorporates: Corus Advance® Sections,Celsius® and Hybox® tubular sections and adds section properties forelliptical hollow sections.

Adrian Gibson, IHS Vice President EMEA Sales and Marketing explained, “The IHS/SCI Euro Blue Book has been created to improve the design steel structure process for our customers. The onset of Eurocodes has resulted in significant technical changes to steelwork design which is where the Blue Book will aid designers in ensuring they are meeting the standards.”

“The new electronic product represents a major advance in scheme design through the use of Euro Blue Book tables.” Continued Gibson, “Designers can now customize their own blue book. Which enables them to generate bespoke tables for particular elements of geometries and then store the tables by project and add electronic post-it notes.”

The IHS/SCI Euro Blue Book is customizable, users are able to choose to show only certain section ranges including the Corus Advance® and ‘BS’ standard range. They may select certain members from the section range and only certain design behaviours from the range. The Euro Blue Book guidance notes are contextually linked to the information which will assist designers in understanding thecapacity figures represented. The product is powered by SCI engineering.

To find out more about the IHS/SCI Blue Book please complete your details below and one of our representatives will contact you shortly. To purchase please contact this number +44 1344 328 039 (REF: U714).