Traditionally wooden doors and windows have been used in places like homes, offices, hotels, flats, factories and hospitals. With the developments taken place in advanced countries, steel doors and windows are now being preferred for various applications. This publication provides general and technical information concerning steel doors & windows. Users of windows, doors and related accessories will find it very useful in terms of design, manufacturing process, sourcing and application of these products. This guidebook is broadly divided into seven chapters namely: Introduction; Steel windows; Steel Doors; Standards for Manufacturing; Corrosion Protection & Maintenance; Cost Index & Practices and Bibliography. The beneficiaries of this publication are buyers, specifiers / procurement officers, manufacturers, distributors/ retailers, architects, designers, builders and suppliers, policy-workers and government officials.
Publication No INS/PUB/ 036 Price: Rs. 300/- 18.(B+G+20) Storied Residential Building with Steel-Concrete Composite Option
In India residential buildings are coming up in numbers with a height of 20 storied and above to accommodate the influx of population to Metros which are facing severe space constraint. This publication covers a study on the cost effectiveness of the fast-track Steel -Concrete Composite construction in comparison with the RCC option based on the same type plan of a (B+G+20) storied residential building which has been collected from a live example. The Composite options have been considered with conventional brick cladding and with lighter cladding material like M2 Panel/Aerocon Blocks/Gypcrete etc., which has indicated substantial savings over its RCC option. The design of the structural elements have been carried out following relevant Indian/foreign standards in Limit State Method of Design both for RCC and Composite construction, this book helps the builders, designers, Architects to selects an econoimic and safe Technical option for their projects.
Publication No.: INS/PUB/047 Price Rs 650/- 19. (G+3) & (G+6) Storied Residential Buildings with Steel -Concrete Composite Option
In the publication the modern trend of Steel-Concrete Composite construction has been considered. It also includes a study of the cost effectiveness of the steel-Concrete Composite options vis-a-vis RCC option based on the type plan of (G+3) & (G+6) storied residential buildings collected from a live example. The Composite options have been considered with conventional brick cladding and with lighter cladding material like M2 Panel/Aerocon Blocks/Gypcrete etc., which has indicated substantial savings over its RCC option. The design of the Structural elements has been carried out in Limit State Method of Design following Indian/foreign standards both for RCC & Composite options.
Publication No.: INS/PUB/048 Price Rs 650/- 20. Typical Design of Cost-effective Rural Housing
Housing is considered as one of the major problems in the world. The habitation conditions of the Indian villagers particularly need to be improved. This publication includes a Housing scheme with Steel in frame having colums, beams & trusses with SHS sections and Ferro-Cement
panels used for roofing and cladding. The housing scheme has been developed with doubled-layered Ferro-Cement cladding having an air-gap in between and with sufficient openings for ventilation, which makes habitation comfortable for the villagers, and it is designed to take care of the effects of Earthquake & Wind. Elevated units also take care of water clogging during monsoon.
Publication No.: INS/PUB/049 Price Rs 3007- B. Projects Under Progress
1. Design of a Typical cyclone / Flood relief Center at Paradip
At the instance of JPC - one of the major stakeholders, INSDAG had prepared a steel intensive design for a raised two-storey school building (15 m X 15 m X 8 m) with required wind loading to be used as a cyclone/flood relief center in Paradeep, Orissa.
2. Road Island Project
INSDAG has prepared a design of an exquisite inverted pyramid (top: 16 m X 16 m; height: 8 m) of tubular structure displaying steel application in a typical road island.
3. Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures
Steel is globally used for earthquake resistant structures. In view of the need for speedy rehabilitation and reconstruction of earthquake affected areas in Gujarat and based on interaction made with various agencies, the Institute had prepared general arrangement drawings of 7 variants (260 sq. ft. for rural areas; 435 sq. ft., 640 sq.ft. and 840 sq.ft. in G+1 and G+3 modules) with the help of a leading consultant and submitted to concerned authorities in Gujarat. Later on, the Institute has also developed detail-engineering drawings for the single-storeyed building and the G+3 building (640 sqft appartments) and submitted to the concerned authorities in Gujarat. These drawings are available for sale.
4. Teaching Resource for Structural Steel Design for Faculty of Civil/Structural Engg.
The project on Teaching Resource for Structrual Steel Design for the Faculty of Civil/Structural Engineering has been pursued by the Expert Team (Dr V Kalyanraman, Dr A R Santhakumar, DrS.R. Satish Kumar, DrS. Seetharaman, Mr A. Jayachandran and others) under the leadership of Dr. R. Narayanan, expert from Steel Construction Institute, UK. Preparation of all the 45 chapters for one semester course had been completed after expert reviews.
Six Workshops for the university faculty have been organized at six different places namely IIT-Chennai, IIT-Mumbai, BE College(DU)-Howrah, Delhi College of Engineering-Delhi, Malviya National Institute of Technology-Jaipur and IIT-Roorkee with total involvement of the expert team to train approximately 220 teachers from 173 engineering colleges using the state-of-art teaching material. All the 45 chapters are available in the INSDAG website www.steel-insdag.org.
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Technical volumes are available for sale. Price Rs 2500/- for full set (Rs 3000/- with CD). Only CD ROM is available at Rs 800/- only.
5. Refresher Courses on Composite Construction
Improving knowledge and skill of professionals in design using composite construction has been identified as an important area of activity. Twelve refresher courses had been conducted till December 2002. These consist of two at Calcutta, two at Chennai, one each at Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Ranchi and IITGuwahati.
About 250 professionals and 50 faculties have been exposed to composite construction technology. Considering the importance of ductile design of steel structures, concept of earthquake resistant design had also been included in the lecture material of some refresher courses.
The technical volumes are available for sale. Price Rs 800/- (for each course) C. Steel Promotional Brochures
The Institute has published five attractive promotional/ awareness brochures for free distribution to target customers such as designers, consultants, architects, builders at various conferences and other forums:
• Pre-engineered Buildings
• Steel —The Right Choice for Building Construction • Steel — The Trusted Material for Bridges and Flyovers
• Corrosion Protection of Structural Steel in Buildings and Bridges • Steel Car Parks - A Worldwide Choice
D. Regular Publications of Insdag
1. Insdag's Steel in Construction - a half yearly technical journal Price Rs 90/- 2. INSDAG News - a quarterly news bulletin Price Rs 20/-
3. Insdag E-News Letter - Monthly Free
E. Other Activities
1. Student Award Scheme for Best Innovative Use of Steel inArchitecture
In the fourth year (2002 - 03) for the "Student Award Scheme for the Innovative Use of Steel in Architecture", an exciting brief entitled "World Class Shopping Plaza" had been prepared and circulated to more than 100 Schools of Architecture / Engineering Colleges. The last date of recipt of entries is 30th January 2003 The entries will be
2. Award Scheme for Civil and Structural Engineering Students for Best Innovative Structural Steel Design
In the third year (2002 - 2003) for the "Award Scheme for Civil and Structural Engineering Students for Best Innovative Structural Steel Design", an exciting brief on the theme of "Elevated Light Rail Transit System" has been prepared and circulated to more than 240 Engineering Institutions. The last date of receipt of entries is 31st
March 2003. The entries will be evaluated by Zonal Committees in the month of April-May 2003. The final selection will be done in July 2003.
3. Interfacing with the MOS
The Institute has prepared technical documents/Vision Paper for consideration/perusal by concerned authorities: o Use of steel crash barriers on bridges and highways
o Input paper on National Steel Policy with particular focus on construction sector
o Justification for adoption of steel scaffolding in place of bamboo/wood based on life cycle costing and safety requirement
4. Review of Relevant Documents for Modification of IRC 22, IRC 24 and some IS codes.
Advances on knowledge of structural behaviour resulting from research need to be adopted in design practice for innovative / efficient design techniques. This necessitated modification of Codes of Practices (BIS/IRC Codes which have not kept pace with the technological improvements in latest design methodologies), pertaining to construction in steel as well as steel-concrete composite.
INSDAG has been involved in IRC B-7 Committee engaged in revision of IRC 22, 24 pertaining to construction of composite, steel bridges respectively, and a Committee on IS 800 engaged in modifying the Code of Practice for use of structural steel in general building construction to limit state method. Also, INSDAG has been included in a sub-committee entrusted to preparation of "Guidelines for design of Composite / Steel Box Girder bridges" considered to be cost effective for relatively higher spans where composite bridges using steel plate girders are not economical compared to other competitive options.
To make the design of steel bridges as well as steel-concrete composite bridges economical and rational based on the state-of-the-art methodologies, modifications have been suggested to clauses pertaining of deflection stipulation, modular ratio and shear connector capacity in the present design environment (working stress method). It has been estimated that amended clause on deflection stipulation itself will reduce the weight of bridge girder to the tune of 13 percent.
F. Copyright Publications From SCI, UK
In addition to the above, INSDAG has published 20 important documents under copyright from the steel Construction Institute, UK on steel intensive design of structures. A list of such publications is provided below: