BlueScope’s welded beams and columns are known for their size and strength. They are designed to hold large loads in critical projects such as bridges, high-rise buildings, shopping centres, car parks, stadiums and mining infrastructure.
BlueScope’s welded beams and columns are manufactured from XLERPLATE® steel. A fully automatic submerged arc-welding process is implemented to ensure quality and consistency. BlueScope offers a wide range of standard beam and column sizes, with 41 standard sections and length increments of 1.5m.
Available in four standard steel grades (300, 300L15, 400 and 400L15) manufactured to Australian Standards AS/NZS 3679.2:2016 and AS 1554.1:2014 SP Category (welding standard). To maximise design efficiency on your project, custom-sized beams and pre-cambered options are also available by enquiry.
Providing you peace of mind via the ability to identify and trace your product back to its origin. BlueScope also have a number of initiatives to ensure compliance:
- ISO Quality Management Systems Certification (ISO 9001:2015)
- Manufactured by BlueScope and conform to relevant Australian Standards
- Comprehensive test certificates
- Compliance via ACRS certification and ATIC Scheme 10
Access to our business development and technical teams means you have access to steel experts that can assist you with material selection and provide product application guidance, to ensure you select the appropriate grade for your next project.
Product Range
| Dimension | Welded Beams | Welded Columns |
|---|---|---|
| Flange thickness (mm) | 16 - 40 | 28 - 40 |
| Web thickness (mm) | 10 - 16 | 20 - 40 |
| Flange width (mm) | 250 - 500 | 350 - 500 |
| Web height (mm) | 660 - 1120 | 275 - 400 |
| Length (m) | 9.0 - 36.0* | 9.0 - 36.0* |
*Lengths >18.0 metres available by enquiry
For other product and technical information, please refer to the brochure and relevant datasheet.
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Large infrastructure projects ranging from small pedestrian bridges to large highways. These projects require a range of high strength grades, with options for guaranteed impact toughness and/or through thickness ductility. Our welded beams and columns allow for large spans offering the advantage of removing dangerous piers in road spans to crossing swampy ground. Our custom range options allow longer length plate for bridge design efficiencies. REDCOR® steel, XLERPLATE® steel and welded beams and columns are typically used in the construction of a wide range of bridges from long span road bridges, rail bridges to pedestrian bridges.
The sheer size of welded beams and columns allow for greater load bearing capacity when constructing high rise buildings. Our welded beams and columns may reduce the overall weight of a structure allowing the asset owner to add additional floors to the proposed building.
Welded beams and columns are widely used in building shopping centres and carparks. The high load bearing capacity allows greater spans than may reduce the number of piers and thereby maximise retail and car parking space.
Welded beams and columns manufactured for stadiums not only provide high load bearing capacity and large spans, but also allow for significant cantilever sections to be built into stadium designs for use in roof, awning, and multi-tier construction.
A wide range of standard section beams are available for the design of mining infrastructure and machinery and equipment such as conveyor systems, processing plants and materials handling facilities.
