Category: Beam Bending


Curved wide flanged beams welcome visitors to Springfield, Massachusetts.  Anyone visiting this New England town will drive under W36x182 beams rolled hardway to a 92ft 2in wide inside radius.  Two pieces each with 35ft of arc were spliced to make Read more…


 Modern steel processing equipment can cut out intricate patterns in steel plate with extraordinary precision.  At times, rolled beams, for example, have patterns cut in the web.  Care has to be taken in the rolling process so as not to Read more…


Heavy rolled wide flange steel beams provide a strong yet simple mounting surface for circular rails of a Whirley Crane.  Whirley Cranes are, by definition, free to rotate 360 dgrees while loading and unloading. Two large rings were rolled the Read more…


Steel beams and channels rolled into a circle and installed horizontally are often used to reinforce soil in trenches.  These rings are called walers.  Typically, steel sheet piling is driven into the ground behind the walers.  This creates a ring template Read more…


100 tons of steel beams were rolled into compound bends (with both sweep and camber) and also formed into an S curve for the Animus Trail Bridge in Durango, Colorado.  Several truckloads of W36 x 160# and W36 x 190# Read more…


A steel beam can be cambered by rolling it in a three roll bender, by ramming it with a hydraulic cylinder, or by applying heat with a torch.  Cambering a steel beam, by any method,  will increase its yield and tensile Read more…


Rolling beams and steel plate are processes most often used to curve metal.  With the right machines, machine operators, and methods, however, the processes can also be used to straighten steel sections. In our plant today we are straightening three Read more…


A convergence of events including the increasing acceptance of beam bending by cold cambering, standardized design of steel bridges, and increased availability of domestically produced jumbo beams all contribute to making steel the solution for bridges. AASHTO (American Association of Read more…


Bending of beams is often done to create curved steel monorails for material transport in factories and warehouses.  Most commonly, the beams are curved the “easy way,” i.e. against the weak or y-y axis.  Typically a trolley with a hoist Read more…


The bending of beams can contribute to sustainability as is evident in the mile-long walkway at Dos Lagos. The walkway is made of 213 pieces of curved beams weighing a total of 45 tons of steel formed by multi-radius bending:  Read more…

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