Structural tubing is created through welding or seamless fabrication processes. Producing welded structural tubing involves joining two edges of a metal coil using a welding technique and then cutting the tube to the desired length. Seamless structural tubing involves hot-rolling steel billets (a rectangular or bar metal) into a continuous hollow form. Made of structural steel, tubing can be round, square, or rectangular.
Regardless of how it’s made, structural steel tubing provides a high strength-to-weight ratio at an affordable price. Choosing the right structural steel tube product depends on your specific application. Read on to learn more about the potential applications of structural steel tubing and how Infra-Metals can help you select the right tubes for your project.
Applications of Structural Tubing
Thanks to its versatility and strength, structural tubing is a common product found in a wide variety of applications:
- Structural supports: Structural steel tubing can support many types of structures. Building frames are one of the most standard applications for structural steel tubes, as well as roof-support trusses and beams. Structural tubing is also effective at supporting bridges and similar structures subject to heavy loads.
- Automotive: Structural steel tubes are necessary to produce the chassis and body panels for all types of vehicles.
- Welding: Its high strength, corrosion resistance, and high temperature resistance make structural steel tubing very effective for welding applications.
Structural Steel Tubes From Infra-Metals
Infra-Metals supplies a variety of industries with superior structural steel tubing products. Our structural tubing uses high-quality raw materials, carefully sized to precise lengths, widths, and diameters. We offer structural steel tubing to ASTM A500 Grade C specifications, which cover cold-formed seamless and welded carbon steel structural tubes. This tubing material is relatively easy to form, drill, punch, and weld according to exact dimensional requirements. Our structural steel tubing is often used for buildings, bridges, and general structural applications.
Infra-Metals: Your Source for Superior Structural Steel Tubing
As one of the largest providers of structural steel tubing in America, Infra-Metals fulfills an essential role for numerous industries. We’re proud to support the construction, manufacturing, energy production, and other sectors with high-quality carbon structural steel products and processing services.
In addition to tubes, we’re a trusted source for structural steel plates, sheets, beams, angles, rounds, flats, channels, and other expanded products. To learn more about our structural tubing and processing capabilities, request a quote today.