STEEL FRAMING SYSTEMS

Steel framing systems typically refers to a building technique with a “skeleton frame” of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, created in an exceedingly rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building that are all hooked up to the frame. the event of this system created the development of the building possible.

The rolled steel “profile” or cross section of steel columns takes the form of the letter “I”. the 2 wide flanges of a column are thicker and wider than the flanges on a beam, to higher stand up to compressive stress within the structure. sq. and spherical hollow sections of steel can even be used, typically stuffed with concrete. Steel beams ar connected to the columns with bolts and rib fasteners, and traditionally connected by rivets. The central “web” of the steel I-beams is commonly wider than a column net to resist the upper bending moments that occur in beams.