STEEL ARCHITECTURE BLOG-1

 

STEEL ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

INTRODUCTION

Steel came into existence for human life during the Pre-historic period .  Pre -historic period includes the stone age, bronze age and the iron age. Evolution of the usage of steel occurred during the different time periods. Metal came into more of use for construction during the industrial revolution amongst countries and were available in alloys of steel. Metal is classified into two different types Ferrous  and non ferrous metals. Ferrous metals include the steel, wrought iron and cast iron. Non ferrous metals are the one with no iron alloys used in it, some examples are aluminium, copper, lead etc. During the 18-19th century AESS architecturally exposed structural steel  came into construction for examples in industrial buildings , where the buildings were purposefully left exposed with steel materials. The steel evolved from a raw material used by ancient stone age men for hunting to a widely used structural material.

This huge growth in use of the steel material happened mainly because of the composite materials used in construction. The five different process involved in making steel materials include the following:

Casting : A steel casting is the product formed by pouring molten steel into a mold cavity. 

Rolling : Rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or  

             more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness and to make the thickness uniform

Forging:  the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.

Extruding: The extrusion process pushes metal through a pre-formed die to shape it into a  

                carefully designed cross-sectional profile.

Drawing : The metal is drawn (pulled), it stretches thinner, into a desired shape and thickness.

-Muhammad

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