Overhead travelling cranes are used in factories and workshops to lift heavy materials, equipments, etc and to carry them from one place to the other. These cranes are either hand operated or electrically operated. The crane consists of a bridge ...
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Types and Design of Steel Chimney Structure
Steel chimneys are structures with tall, slender and tapering with circular cross sections. They are ideally suited for process work where a low thermal capacity required and short heat-up period. This article presents different types of steel chimneys are their ...
LIMIT STATES OF STEEL DESIGN
For a structural designer, it is most important to ensure that the structures and facilities designed by him are: Fit for their purpose Safe Economical and durable. Thus, safety is most important responsibility of a structural designer. But it is ...
What are Methods of Steel Structure Design?
There are three different methods for design of steel structure, i.e. simple design, continuous design and semi-continuous steel design. Joints in structures have been assumed to behave as either pinned or rigid to render design calculations manageable. In simple design ...
Pre – Engineered Metal Buildings – Latest Trends
Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings use a combination of built-up sections, hot rolled sections and cold formed elements which provide the basic steel frame work with a choice of single skin sheeting with added insulation or insulated sandwich panels for roofing and ...
Composite Steel Joists
Composite Steel Joists Composite steel construction has been recognized for a number of years as one of the most economical systems for constructing building floors. Three options have evolved over the years to meet the requirements for building height limitations ...
Maintenance of Steel Structures and its Components for Durability
Structural Considerations for Maintenance of Steel Structures Structural engineers should be consulted to ensure that the repair method will restore the steel structures to the desired strength and that the most effective method of repair has been chosen. Load-carrying members ...
DESIGN OF STEEL COMPRESSION MEMBERS
DESIGN OF STEEL COMPRESSION MEMBERS A structural member loaded axially in compression is generally called a compression member. Vertical compression members in buildings are called columns, posts or stanchions. A compression member in roof trusses is called struts and in ...