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This Standard will be referenced in the Building Code of Australia 2006, thereby superseding AS 4600—1996, which will be withdrawn 12 months from the date of publication of this Standard.

Notes to the text contain information and guidance. They are not an integral part of the Standard.

A statement expressed in mandatory terms in a note to a table is deemed to be a requirement of this Standard.

The terms 'normative' and 'informative' have been used in this Standard to define the application of the appendix to which they apply. A 'normative' appendix is an integral part of a Standard, whereas an 'informative' appendix is only for information and guidance.

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AS/NZS 4600:2005

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical Committee BD-082, Cold-formed Steel Structures. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 28 September 2005 and on behalf of the Council of Standards New Zealand on 23 September 2005. This Standard was published on 30 December 2005.

The following are represented on Committee BD-082:

• Association of Consulting Engineers Australia
• Australian Building Codes Board
• Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Australian Steel Institute
• Bureau of Steel Manufacturers of Australia
• Engineers Australia
• NZ Structural Engineering Society
• NZ Heavy Engineering Research Association
• NZ Metal Roofing and Cladding Manufacturers Association Inc.
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Sydney
• Welding Technology Institute of Australia

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Australian/New Zealand Standard™

Cold-formed steel structures

First published in Australia as AS 1538—1974.

Second edition 1988.

AS 1538—1988 jointly revised and redesignated AS/NZS 4600:1996.

Second edition 2005.

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee BD-082, Cold-formed Steel Structures, to supersede AS/NZS 4600:1996.

The objective of this Standard is to provide designers of cold-formed steel structures with specifications for cold-formed steel structural members used for load-carrying purposes in buildings and other structures.

This edition incorporates the following major changes to the previous edition:

• (a) Alignment of terminology with AS/NZS 1170 series for structural design actions.
• (b) The acceptance of welding of G450 steel to AS 1397 using existing rules with a minor change in capacity factors. This circumvents the confusion for welding of G450 steel.
• (c) Increase in the design stress of G550 steel to AS 1397, less than 0.9 mm thick and greater than or equal to 0.6 mm thick, from 75% to 90%, and 75% for thickness less than 0.6 mm of the specified values of yield stress and tensile strength.
• (d) The addition of web with holes to allow for holes in webs in shear and bearing.
• (e) A new set of design rules for unstiffened elements and edge stiffeners under stress gradient.
• (f) Minor modifications to the rules for uniformly compressed elements with edge and intermediate stiffeners to remove a discontinuity in the equations which formerly existed.
• (g) A new approach for edge-stiffened elements with intermediate stiffeners.
• (h) A new approach for multiple intermediate stiffeners in compression flanges where the stiffeners no longer need to be fully effective.
• (i) The significant liberalization of the lateral buckling rules for beams to allow the AISI design curve to be used with a rational buckling analysis. This will significantly increase the capacity of purlins throughout Australia and New Zealand.
• (j) The introduction of a whole new set of equations for web crippling (bearing) of webs without holes and removal of unconservatism in the previous edition which was discovered by Australian research.
• (k) Bearing of nested Z-section.
• (l) The removal of l/1000 for angle sections in compression which are fully effective.
• (m) Additional design rules for fillet welds, flare welds and resistance welds.
• (n) Modification of the bearing coefficient for bolts to be a function of d/t for high values of d/t and a separate bearing capacity given for bolts where bolt hole deformation is considered.
• (o) Significant reduction in the edge distance provision from 3.0d to 1.5d for screw fasteners and blind rivets.
• (p) The addition of a new section on fatigue of cold-formed members.
• (q) Inclusion of new direct strength method as an alternative to the effective width method of design.
• (r) Alignment of testing provisions with AS/NZS 1170.0.

This Standard will be referenced in the Building Code of Australia 2006, thereby superseding AS 4600—1996, which will be withdrawn 12 months from the date of publication of this Standard.

Notes to the text contain information and guidance. They are not an integral part of the Standard.

A statement expressed in mandatory terms in a note to a table is deemed to be a requirement of this Standard.

The terms 'normative' and 'informative' have been used in this Standard to define the application of the appendix to which they apply. A 'normative' appendix is an integral part of a Standard, whereas an 'informative' appendix is only for information and guidance.

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