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 ...

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

Cold-formed C and Z purlins are the workhorses of the industry. Configurations of these members have originated at the bending press they represent the two basic ways to bend a sheet of metal into a ...

It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got onto the ...

[Ted Yapo] shared a method of easily and conveniently soldering to aluminum, which depends on a little prep work to end up only slightly more complex than soldering to copper. A typical way to ...

And that's a bargain when you consider the benefits. A metal roof typically lasts 30 to 50 years and instead of covering the whole roof with plywood, you just nail a few 2x4 “purlins” across the ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. There’s something satisfying about the heft and feel of a metal credit card. Whether it’s the cachet that comes with owning one ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline materials that consist of coordination bonds between transition-metal cations and multidentate organic linkers. The structure of MOFs is ...

Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has long stood out as one of the most popularized alternative cultures in contemporary music. Throughout the genre’s existence there has ...

Studies have not found evidence that aluminum contributes to Alzheimer’s disease development. But research is ongoing, and you could be a part of it. Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that ...

Aluminum prices jumped more than 2% in London after a key supplier of the mined ore needed to make the metal said exports from its operations in Guinea had been suspended. Emirates Global Aluminum ...

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