Speakers at a seminar on “Fatigue Properties of Steel” in Bangladesh underscored on Saturday the need for ensuring fatigue test before use of steel rod and other steel products in construction works.
They said that most people involved in civil construction works follow traditional tensile test of steel to use rod.
“But in this traditional way of testing, many defects in steel cannot be detected,” said one speaker from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) at the seminar, organized by the country’s leading steel manufacturer BSRM at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel.
The seminar, moderated by Prof. Dr. Mehedi Ahmed Ansary, was addressed, among others, by Prof. Dr. Raquib Ahsan of Civil Engineering Department, Dr. Ahmed Sharif of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (MME) Department, and Dr. Fahmida Gulshan of BUET presented the key note papers on the issue.
They said the fatigue test is widely used in assuring quality of steel in the developed nations of the world.
The seminar was attended by senior BUET professors from the Civil, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering Departments of BUET and private universities.
Senior practicing engineers from the engineering consulting profession, senior engineers from Govt. agencies LGED, RHD, PWD, MES and the Engineering Construction Battalion (ECB) of the Bangladesh Army and the CEO’s and managing directors of different construction firms were also present at the function.
The Head of Product Development of BSRM welcomed the guests and informed them of the successful completion of the fatigue testing of BSRM Xtreme over a 5 year period in a U.K government accredited laboratory in Great Britain.
The country has no facility to test the fatigue properties of steel. The speakers informed the seminar that the country is embarking on a major infrastructure building boom and the quality of materials, will have a major impact on the useful life of the structures.
BSRM has taken the lead in quality assurance of steel by becoming the first steel company in the country to have successfully implemented a fatigue testing program of its products.
Source: UNBConnect
