BUILDING STEELS THERMOMECHANICAL AND HEAT HARDENING OF BUILDING STEELS

Hardening treatment of steels used in welded metal structures like steelwork of industrial and civil buildings, towers, poles, reservoirs, railway bridge girders, cranes, construction machines, truck bodies, etc. is considered. The structures mentioned are produced from rolled stock supplied by metallurgy in an annual amount of tens of million of tons. In the first turn these are plates, shapes, rolled bars and sections, and pipes with different wall thickness and cross section. A classification of steels for metallic structures with respect to chemical composition and microstructure is presented.