Steel Connection Design you can trust

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Direct Detailing provides professional structural steel connection design services to the UK construction industry, designing steel connections to the latest Eurocode or BS5950 design codes to ensure your projects comply with Building Regulation standards.

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Efficient and practical connection design

With over 10 years experience designing steel connections, we provide designs that are practical to fabricate and easy to install allowing you to maximise production and keep your clients happy.

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Our Structural Engineers can provide steel connection design services for all your connection needs, including:

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• Simple shear connection (beam to beam/beam to column)

• Moment resisting connection (beam to beam/beam to column)

• Splice connections (open and hollow sections)   

• Multi-way truss connections (welded or bolted)

• Base plate connection design

• Web hole (service) openings 

• Handrail and balustrade connections

• Connections into existing and historical steel, wrought iron or cast iron beams and columns.

 

We also provide connection design services for connecting members to concrete, masonry and timber, including:

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• Chemical resin anchor connections (chemfix, Rawl, Hilti etc.)

• Expansion anchor connections (Lindibolts, Hilti, Fischer etc.)

• Concrete screwbolt connections (Thunderbolts, Excalibur etc.)

• Hold-down connections (cast in J-bolts, plate washer anchors etc.)

• Bearing spreader plates & padstones

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Experience + Latest Technology

Combining hand calculation, 2D design software, advanced 3D finite element software and an in-depth understanding of steel connection behaviour, we provide sensible and efficient steel connection design for simple and complex connections of any geometry.

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Specialist steel connection design knowledge

Specialist steel connection design requirements can be catered for, such as:

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• Rotational stiffness and rotation capacity analysis

• Design to avoid lamellar tearing

• Stand-off base plate bolts

• Hollo-Bolt® (blind bolt) connection design

• Flowddrill (friction drilling) connection design

• Lindapter connection design

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Steel beam and frame Design

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Combining hand calculation, 2D design software, advanced 3D finite element software and an in-depth understanding of steel frame behaviour, we provide sensible and efficient steel frame design for simple and complex frames of any geometry.

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