INTRODUCTION TO

STRUCTURAL
STEEL DESIGN
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TYPES OF STRUCTURAL STEEL
Hot Rolled Steel. A rolling process at temperatures over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit is use to create hot
rolled steel.
Hot rolled steel actually reconfigures itself during the cooling process, giving the finished product looser
tolerances than the original material and when compared to cold rolled steel products. Hot rolled steel
is more malleable, allowing it to be forced into a variety of different shapes.
This makes hot rolled steel a good choice for the manufacturing of structural components, such as I
beams or simple cross sections, such as rail tracks. It is also used to produce sheet metal.

Cold Rolled/Formed Steel. A rolling process at temperatures that are close to normal room
temperature are used to create cold rolled steel. This increases the strength of the finished product
through the use of strain hardening by as much as 20 percent.
The cold rolled process creates a finished product that is more precise dimensionally than a hot rolled
product. This is because it is already closer to the finished dimension since it has already gone through
the cooling process.
Unfortunately, because of these properties, cold rolled steel is limited to just a few shapes, such as
round, square, flat and variations of those types of shapes. Other shapes can be cold rolled if the cross
section is uniform and the transverse dimension is small. A series of shaping operations, which include
sizing, breakdown, semi-roughing, semi-finishing, roughing and finishing are required to create cold
rolled shapes.

ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag
ME33 : Fluid Flow 3 Chapter 11: Flow over bodies; lift and drag