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BS 92 Screw threads, British Standard Whitworth and their tolerances; BS 93 Specification for British Association (B.A.) screw threads with tolerances for sizes 0 B.A. to 16 B.A. BS 94 Watertight glands for electric cables; BS 95 Tables of Corrections to Effective Diameter required to compensate Pitch and Angle Errors in Screw Threads of ...
The standards produced are titled British Standard XXXX[-P]:YYYY where XXXX is the number of the standard, P is the number of the part of the standard (where the standard is split into multiple parts) and YYYY is the year in which the standard came into effect.
British Standards are developed, maintained and published by BSI Standards which is UK's National Standards Body. [5] The following is a partial list of standards specific to welding: Standard Number
British Standard Pipe (BSP) is a set of technical standards for screw threads that has been adopted internationally for interconnecting and sealing pipes and fittings by mating an external thread with an internal (female) thread.
British Standard Whitworth (BSW) is an imperial-unit-based screw thread standard, devised and specified by Joseph Whitworth in 1841 and later adopted as a British Standard. It was the world's first national screw thread standard, and is the basis for many other standards, such as BSF , BSP , BSCon , and BSCopper .
BS 5400 was a British Standard code of practice for the design and construction of steel, concrete and composite bridges. It was applicable to highway, railway and pedestrian bridges. It has now been replaced by the European standard, BS EN 1991-2_2003 [1] and other Eurocodes for the design of steel and concrete structures.
BSI Group headquarters building in Gunnersbury, West London, featuring the BSI Group logo. BSI was founded as the Engineering Standards Committee in London in 1901. [5] [2] It subsequently extended its standardization work and became the British Engineering Standards Association in 1918, adopting the name British Standards Institution in 1931 after receiving a Royal Charter in 1929. [2]
In 1992, the IEE Wiring Regulations became British Standard BS 7671 so that the legal enforcement of their requirements was easier both with regard to the Electricity at Work regulations and from an international point of view. [4] They are now treated similar to other British Standards.