Blue Book Approaches 5000

Over 4,500 copies of the Corus Electronic 'Blue Book' have been registered. The CD was originally distributed by Corus and is now available on the Corus website. The software not only provides up-to-date content of the 7^th Edition of the 'Blue Book' but also adds more for the user with all design data generated from the root software functions used to populate the SCI ‘Blue Book’.

The software is easily installed and delivers:

• Simple location of Section properties, effective section properties, section tolerance and section load carrying performance information through a simple tree structure for each section range.
• Rapid switching of steel grades between those available for the section range (e.g. Advance® 275 and Advance® 355 for the Advance® section range).
• Rapid look-up of other performance tables for that section by using the ‘Related Tables’ option.
• Contextual access to the technical notes associated with the tables viewed.
• Provision of a wide range of customisation options from selection of tables and behaviours through to working environment settings. The Interactive Blue Book will ‘remember’ these personalised settings and the position of the user within the Blue Book between sessions.
• Provision of an automatic update service for users connected to the Internet.
• Print output of the current section table data for design files.
• Cut and paste design information into other applications.