Section Beams are made of steel and they have a specific lengths and shapes like I-beam, L, channel and I flanged beam. These types of section are usually used in steel structures and it is common to connected them with plates of steel.
There are three methods of connection and they are :
The strongest method of connection is the riveted method and it is the most used one.[1]
There are some methods of calculation to see if the design of the truss or the construction is safe or not.
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