Thanks unclesyd,
You have confirmed my thoughts.
I agree about removing the restraints, I was planning to use oversized holes to allow for panel expansion.
Using the A36 will help keep the costs down as well.
At our facility we are using some A36 and some Corten steels. The mock-ups have been in use for about eight years and have suffered from buckling, sagging and cracking. The maintainers are having difficulty welding the cracks or adding localised reinforcement.
I was hoping for that magic...
We have an application that requires the building of a mock-up for training firefighters. The mock-up will be steel (plate/sections and approximately 30 feet long and 10 foot high) and will be exposed to a fuel-rich propane fire (probably in the 600ºC or higher range). The duration of the fire...
