Hot-rolled steel purlins predate modern metal building systems by decades. A multitude of industrial buildings constructed since the beginning of the twentieth century utilized hot-rolled channel and ...

5.1). FIGURE 5.1: Typical eave strut. Girts, purlins, and eave struts exhibit similar structural behavior. Since most secondary members normally encountered in metal building systems are made of ...

Industry's move to electric arc furnaces and architects' specification of light gauge framing systems are helping to improve the sustainability of building projects ...