Month: April 2011


A growing market for those of us in steel? After the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent damage to the nuclear power plants in Japan, Yucca Mountain is in the news again. Planned as a repository for spent fuel rods from nuclear Read more…


For Metal Manufacturing and Structural Steel Construction One cynic described a barometer as “an ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”   I suspect that most of us don’t feel we need an economic barometer to indicate Read more…


My older son, Tyler, is a sophomore taking Geometry and just failed his trigonometry pop quiz on sine, cosine, and tangent.   Panicked for his test the next day, we had a great teaching opportunity.  He knew the rule soh-cah-toa  (sine Read more…


Curved steel requires much the same handling and transportation needs as straight steel.  However, there are a couple of specific shipping issues that are unique to curved steel.  One issue that is unique to rolled structural steel is the varying Read more…


Circular staircases made of steel have become more popular with owners and their architects for the way they give the illusion of making smaller rooms seem much larger and for the way their free-flowing designs are able to blend with Read more…


Fabric architecture is now appearing all over and in a wide variety of venues. Very often these tent-like structures are supported by a steel frame that involves steel tube bending. Because steel tube bending can be done with tubing from Read more…

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