Steel World

Cold-formed steel structures around the world

Today, cold-formed steel (CFS) structures enjoy widespread use in many countries and design specifications, e.g., [1] and [2] are well established, even if they are ever changing! Extensive reviews of the CFS literature are available [3], [4] and more targeted research reviews also exist: [5], [6] and Chapter 13 of [7]. However, even in the last five years significant progress has been made, pa...

Steel, Cast Iron and Concrete: Security Engineering for Real World Wireless Sensor Networks

What are the real security issues for a wireless sensor network (WSN) intended to monitor the structural health of a suspension bridge, a subway tunnel or a water distribution pipe? Could an attack on the sensor network cause the structure to collapse? How easy is it for civil engineers or other domain experts to build a secure WSN using commercially available hardware and software? We answer t...

Figure 1 Guangzhou-world Price Difference: Flow-on Effects to Imports of round Steel Bars

The Working Paper series provides a means for circulating preliminary research results by members of, or visitors associated with, the Chinese Economies Research Centre. To facilitate prompt distribution, papers are screened but not formally refereed. ABSTRACT This paper outlines and applies a methodology for testing the hypothesis, put forward by Chinese metallurgical industry officials, that ...

(Review) World History for Behavior Analysts: Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

Risk, Profitability and Value of the Leading Steel Producers on the World Capital Markets

J. Jonek-Kowalska, Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Organization and Management, Zabrze, Poland The purpose of the article is an assessment of risk, profitability and value as well as the relationships between these parameters for fifteen leading steel producers in the world. The research methodology uses return on assets, beta coefficient and price/book value ratio (P/BV). The res...