When a small town in the northwest corner of Connecticut decided to replace their 85-year-old wooden ski jump with a modern concrete and steel one, the design required steel beam bending. What spurred the construction of a new ski jump Read more…
Category: Beam Bending
George
Beam Bending, Bending, FAQ, Project Management, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
How much lead time is for required for bending steel sections? How long does it take to fabricate curved steel? What is the schedule impact? Architects, engineers, and structural steel fabricators regularly ask these questions of Benders and Rollers, companies Read more…
George
Beam Bending, Bending
May 22, 2016
Perhaps this beam bending question asked by architects, engineers and fabricators is best divided into two parts: What are the longest beams that are produced. And, given those lengths, is there a length limit as to whether they can be Read more…
George
Beam Bending, Bending, Curved Steel Costs, FAQ
May 22, 2016
Structural beam bending is often done for the purpose of cambering. (Camber is the amount of deflection provided in the opposite direction of loadings.) An excellent article in Modern Steel Construction, $ave More Money (March 2008), states that “the minimum Read more…
George
Beam Bending, Industry News
May 22, 2016
Some years ago, the Steel Quiz of Modern Steel Construction asked “Which of the following camber ordinates for a 30ft W16x26 beam are not recommended? a. ¼ in., b. ½ in., c. 1-1/2 in, d. 2 in, e. 5 in.” Read more…
George
Analysis & Design, Beam Bending, Bending, FAQ, Industry News
May 22, 2016
At the North American Steel Construction Conference held on May 11 to May 14, 2011, we learned from Bill McEleny, Director of the National Steel Bridge Alliance, that the AASHTO construction specification has recently been revised to allow cold cambering Read more…
Andy
Beam Bending, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
Reversed curved bending of beams is complicated to produce accurately and with minimal distortion. Reverse curve bending is where a steel section is curved to a radius in one direction and then is curved to a radius in the opposite Read more…
George
Beam Bending, Bending, FAQ, Rolling Limitations
October 18, 2019
Probably the most common question we get from new customers is, What is your capacity for bending, particularly for the bending of beams. We have a quick and easy answer: W44x290# beams the “hard way” (x-x axis) and the “easy Read more…
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Angle Bending, Applications, Bar Bending, Beam Bending, Bending, Channel Bending, Industry News, Pipe Bending, Plate Rolling, Special Bending, Tee Bending, Tube Bending
May 22, 2016
(Can a woodchuck chuck wood?) While attending various trade shows either for OEM products like storage tanks, antennas, agricultural and construction equipment, etc., I regularly see where the use of a curved steel section—produced by beam bending, bar bending, angle Read more…
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Analysis & Design, Angle Bending, Applications, Bar Bending, Beam Bending, Bending, Channel Bending, Curved Steel Costs, FAQ, Industry News, Pipe Bending, Plate Rolling, Special Bending, Strength, Tee Bending, Tube Bending
May 22, 2016
Whenever I talk to architects and engineers about bending beams, bending pipes, or any other steel section bending, three questions usually come up: Is it structurally sound? Is it too expensive? And Is it readily available to meet a demanding Read more…
