What Is H-shaped Steel

H-shaped steel is a widely used profile in today's steel structure buildings. The inner surface of the flange has no inclination, and the upper and lower surfaces are parallel. The section characteristics of H-shaped steel are obviously better than those of traditional I-beams, channel steel and Angle steel. H-shaped steel is a kind of economically efficient profile with more optimized section area distribution and more reasonable strength-to-weight ratio, which is named because its section is the same as the English letter "H". The two outer inner edges of H-shaped steel have no inclination and are flat and straight. This makes the welding splicing of H-beam steel simpler than that of I-beam steel, has better mechanical properties per unit weight, and can save a lot of materials and construction time.