[Construction Section 35]
STEEL STRUCTURE
The steel structure designates the part of the civil engineering with for the building of wing units primarily the steel to the employment comes. Rolled steel girders, sheet metals and pipes from structural steel and since relative to short time also cast steel parts through a wing unit are interconnected to rivets, welding or bolting. A further central design feature of the steel structure is the gusset, which interconnects the individual staff of the wing unit. Beside the pure steel structure there is also the steel composite construction, the steel elements with concrete connects and the building of steel skeletons.
The steel structure connects the advantage of comparatively short planning and construction period with a flexible execution of the wing unit. This flexibility arises for example as a result of the use relatively more easily and slim, high-duty construction units and a high like also precise prefabrication degree and thus shortened assembling times. Disadvantages of the steel structure are relatively high material costs - strongly varying internally. Steel prices - a relatively complex corrosion and fire protection, high oscillation susceptibility like also unfavorable sound transmission of steel structure works. The high cost factor causes therefore a very caerfully examination when using steel structures in relation to more economical building constructions from wood or reinforced concrete. They appear everywhere meaningfully assigned, where above average high firmness requirements are placed against the construction - extreme spans of roof frameworks, building of steel skeletons in the highrise building construction - or aesthetic, formal organization reasons slim constructions demand and these mostly in connection with transparent, representative steel glass architectures. The steel structure subdivided itself in
1. STEEL STRUCTURE, FOR EXAMPLE STEEL FRAMEWORK TOWERS
2. BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING COMPOSITE BRIDGES,
3. HYDRAULIC STEEL CONSTRUCTION
4. BUILDING OF CRANES
MASONRY CONSTRUCTION
The building of brick-work is a term from the building industry and describes a form of the massive construction. The masonry construction is thereby an old and independent field of activity, which distinguishes itself with its specific techniques and materials from others, as for example the reinforced concrete construction, steel structure or timber construction.
The brick-work as construction unit consists of individual pressure resistant elements - for example malmbricks - which are connected to mortars also, or without, in a brick-work federation. In the masonry construction a trained and active building craftsman is the bricklayer.