First Introduction of HSS members

[briancpotter]

I'm looking for information on when HSS section members first began to be produced and used. The only information I have is that they first appear in the AISC design manual in LRFD 2nd Edition, but presumably they must have been in use prior to that. Can anyone shed some light?

Brian C Potter

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[UcfSE]

Are you looking for the origin of closed hollow structural sections (hss) or tube steel (ts), or the nomenclature "HSS"?

 

[briancpotter]

The origin of closed hollow structural sections/tube steel.

Brian C Potter

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[msquared48]

Well, they are not listed in the Fifth Edition (1956), but they are in the 1967, fourth revised printing of the Sixth Edition of the 1963 AISC Manual of Steel Construction.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

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[spats]

The Steel Tube Institute was formed in 1930 (per their website).

 

[msquared48]

And the Structural Tube Division of the Institute was formed in 1972 according to their 1974 manual, their first edition.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

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[BAretired]

Article 1.2 of Packer and Henderson "Hollow Structural Section Connections and Trusses - a Design Guide" states that the advent of HSS was in England and research at Sheffield University led to the landmark design recommendations of Eastwood and Wood in 1970. These recommendations were quickly implemented in Canada and publicized by Stelco (1971) in the world's first connection manual.

A lot of research took place during the 1970's with regard to connection behavior and static strength.

In 1981, a new set of ultimate strength formulae for HSS welded truss connections was published in Canada by Packer and Haleem.

BA