Let's Revitalize Welded Structural Steel

Abstract

The use of welded structural steel in buildings and bridges has been well accepted for many years-so well accepted, in fact, as to lull the fabricator and erector into a sense of complacency. It has been said that complacency is the greatest enemy of management-and certainly, until recent years, we have been complacent about the use of steel in these structures, with the consequence that constructional concrete has made tremendous inroads as an alternative building material.