FYI - DSA BULLETIN 07-03 - UPDATE

Date 11-16-2007 20:06

I did not see this posted on the site anywhere, I thought I would bring this to the forum member's attention:

DSA's investigation of defective tube steel, or Hollow Section Steel (HSS) as it is also called, continues. DSA Bulletin BU 07-03 has been updated and posted to the DSA Web site, Publications page and Testing Labs page. Pictures of some defective welds found (as well as a good seam weld for comparison purposes) can be found on the Testing Labs page.

http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/dsa/bulletins/bu_07-03_update.pdf

By 803056

Date 11-16-2007 22:43

Good information to have.

Thanks - Al

By pax23

Date 12-20-2007 17:54

An update on this issue by AISC:

http://www.aisc.org/template.cfm?template=/PressRelease/PressReleaseDisplay.cfm&PressReleaseID=50295

By pax23

Date 05-21-2008 20:31

I am a little late on this one:
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/dsa/bulletins/BU_07-03_UPDATE2_3-7-08.pdf
This is DSA's 2nd update to their initial bulletin which came out a couple months ago.

Not sure what to make of this. Seems to be somewhat more extensive than I expected it would be. Looks like buyers need to be more careful on initial inspection and receipt of this material and probably other HSS products. I know of at least one situation where A500 exhibiting the defects mentioned in the DSA bulletin was manufacturing in the good old USA.

Pictures for those interested:
http://www.dsa.dgs.ca.gov/labs/hss_pictures.htm