the variety of steel shapes rolled for use in construction
2.
a steel having a composition suitable for such shapes
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, cholesterol, masochism, plein-air, pogey
Examples of 'structural steel' in a sentence
structural steel
Back then, what were mostly office towers were essentially grids of structural steel.
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It now holds 80,000 tonnes of structural steel products.
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It makes structural steel for industrial and commercial properties.
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In 2005, investors' burning desire to grab a piece of the structural-steel specialist was obvious.
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His influential papers on the fatigue strength of structural steel and on friction welding were soon in demand internationally.
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Place the following in order of typical tensile strength, highest irst: concrete, structural steel, window glass?