Month: February 2014


A common question from those who are not familiar with the operation of a section bender (also called an angle roll, a pyramid roll, or a 3-roll bender) is how many passes (rollings back and forth) does it take to Read more…


What can a community or chamber of commerce do to beautify a viaduct when it runs under a railroad line?  Not much.  The crumbling faces can rarely be modified because they are owned by the railroad.  Don’t even think about Read more…


When most people in industry talk about rolled and welded products, they are speaking about steel rings or steel pipe.  It is true that these two manufactured goods are probably the most common of all rolled and welded products but Read more…


Curved structural steel often needs to be cut. On the other hand, many times the customer asks that the ends of a curved section be uncut, left as they are, even, at times with some unusable material on the ends. Read more…


Angle rings, also called “angle flanges,” commonly are provided with or without bolt holes.  When used as mating flanges, the rings are either welded together or bolted together.  In order to bolt together properly, several dimensions must be specified and Read more…


Steel circular stairs (sometimes called “spiral stairs”) commonly incorporate “stringers,” structural members that support the treads, side walls (if any), and handrails.  These stair stringers can be made of plate, channel, beam and tube (round, square and rectangular).  These steel Read more…


Of all the structural steel sections that are curved in a variety of ways, one of the most difficult to curve is the steel channel rolled against the strong axis. When bending a channel the “hard way” in a three-roll Read more…


The term “roll forming” lends itself to great ambiguity. Since steel mills producing “long sections” of structural steel–including angles, bars, beams, channels, and tees–manufacture their products through a rolling process, these sections are often referred to as, for example, “rolled Read more…

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