Month: November 2013


We don’t usually write about sports teams in our blog.  Each of us, to the extent that we follow sports at all, has his or her favorite teams.  We follow these teams for a multitude of reasons:  family traditions, geographic Read more…


All of us who work with metal are trying to keep our costs down to serve our customers well and to be profitable.  To these ends we want to minimize the amount of energy we use when we are shearing, Read more…


One of the most versatile and common methods to bend pipe and tube is rotary draw bending.  The radius of such bends is often described as, for example, “2D.”  A 2D bend is one whose center-line radius is equal to Read more…


Many structures whose external shape indicates the purpose of the interior achieve this effect by incorporating curved steel in their design. For example, curved steel helped create the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The shape of Read more…


A concern in bending long lengths of steel is how much they slump during handling. Consider, for example, a 10in x 10in x 3/8in x 85ft square tube picked up from both ends (simply supported beam model).  This extremely long Read more…

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