The particular characteristics of structural steel offer optimal solutions that satisfy architectural, engineering, and economic aspects.
ArcelorMittal Europe’s trademark steels are HISTAR® and FRITENAR® - structural steel grades combining high strength, good toughness, and superior weldability, exceeding requirements and offering supplementary guarantees.
The solution for lightweight, long-spanning structural elements is to implement the cellular ACB® and Angelina® beams. With their circular and sinusoidal web openings, they elegantly combine function with flexibility.
CoSFB (Composite slim floor beams) integrates the advantages of composite design with traditional slim floor construction.
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Updated XCarb® recycled and renewably produced EPDs
18 March 2024Updated Environmental Product Declarations for XCarb® recycled and renewably produced flat products are available now on Constructalia.
Website newsNew SiCA lecture! Welded connections
7 March 2024Our newest lecture – Generalities on welded connections - is part of the ‘Connection design: static loading’ series in our Steel in Construction Academy.Where there are favourable working conditions, welding is the most economical way to make strong connections. Types and descriptions of welds are covered in this lecture, in addition to mechanical properties of materials, edge preparation and fit-up, and weld quality.
Website newsNew! 2024 version of Steel foundation solutions catalogue & HZ®-M steel wall system brochure
29 February 2024The 2024 editions of ArcelorMittal Sheet Piling’s general catalogue ‘Steel foundation solutions’ and the 'HZ®-M steel wall system’ brochure are now available!Both publications include the new EN 10248 – Part 1:2023 standard.
Website news40-year lifetime for PV installations a reality
26 February 2024Since its founding in 2015, Solarport has grown to become one of the largest suppliers of structural components for solar farms in the United Kingdom. During 2023, the company began to utilise Magnelis® ZM800 from ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products in the manufacturing of components for ground-mounted solar arrays. The heavier coating – 65 µm on each side of an S450GD-HyPer® substrate – enables Solarport to offer expected lifetimes of up to 40 years to solar farm operators. This is a crucial differentiator as investors become more aware of corrosion resistance. Although Magnelis® ZM800 only became commercially available in 2023, Solarport has already deployed it in several solar farms across the UK.
Product newsAn innovative head hardened rail from ArcelorMittal will improve railway safety
20 February 2024Over PLN 200 million (EUR 46 million). This was the cost of the research and development projects designed to improve the innovativeness of rails produced at ArcelorMittal’s Dąbrowa Górnicza mill in Poland. One of the results? The mill’s portfolio has been expanded to include extremely durable, strong head hardened rails with significantly better properties than standard rails – even exceeding the requirements of standards in certain aspects.
Product newsOptimised steel structures for a low carbon future
15 February 2024The construction industry is the world’s largest consumer of raw materials and the built environment accounts for between 25 and 40% of global CO2 emissions. The sector is responsible for nearly 40% of annual raw material use and around 39% of the total primary energy use. These numbers are set to increase.The most promising construction material in terms of low emissions and increasing circularity is steel. Although the steel industry is among the highest-emitting industries (about 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions), the carbon footprint of its manufacturing process has decreased over the last 25 years and today new low-carbon alternatives are cutting emissions faster than before. The circularity of steel, enhanced by the possibility to upcycle, unlike other materials, and its low-carbon alternatives have resulted in its use in innovative projects driven by sustainability.Efficient design of steel structures is key, designing with end-of-life in mind and specifying low-carbon alternatives. With design choices playing an important role, we need to rethink the design approach from a circular, more holistic, and therefore more sustainable perspective. The research paper ‘Why optimised steel structures will help reduce embodied carbon’ provides a brief overview of the steps being taken to decarbonise steelmaking and examines the impact of the construction sector on global emissions. The main objective of this paper is to put forth easy-to-use tools to help designers reduce the embodied carbon of their projects while offering guidance on evaluating sustainable solutions.
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Iconic. A piece of art. The symbol of Paris. The Eiffel Tower is the best known example worldwide of structural steel architecture. The design and dimensioning of modern buildings requires careful consideration of many factors such as technical requirements including building physics, architecture, and cost-effectiveness.
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...and moreArcelorMittal also offers a number of pre-design tools in order to support engineers in the use and calculation of our range of steel products and solutions. These free tools cover various design aspects of steel and composite structures in accordance with Eurocodes (beams, columns, castellated beams, slim floor solutions, steel grades, connections, etc.), different performances (e.g. fire & seismic calculations, life cycle assessment, and cost estimation), and construction types.
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