structural steel
Load-bearing metal beams
Structural steel is steel shaped into standardized forms—I-beams, channels, angles, plates—for use in building frameworks.
The material's strength-to-weight ratio makes it ideal for skyscrapers, bridges, and industrial buildings: The structural steel arrived on flatbed trucks.
Distinguished from reinforcing steel (rebar), which is embedded in concrete rather than forming visible frameworks.
- beamStructural support member
- columnsUpright structural shafts
- trussLoad-bearing beam arrangement
- bridge constructionCreating elevated passage structures
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