STEEL PLATE — IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT

[Music] it's virtually everywhere above the ground on the ground below the ground even on the ocean floor it is a vital part of our daily Liv a vital part of our commercial and Industrial lives a vital part of our economy it performs a multitude of necessary functions performs them so well in fact that we couldn't live our present way of life without it steel plate it's one of our most remarkable material achievements it is one of the strongest most durable most versatile Metals ever developed a man-made material that assumes as many many shapes and sizes as there are applications for its exceptional properties a material with inexhaustible [Music] possibilities the basic material of Engineers and designers throughout the world the basic material for large and small diameter water pipe pen stocks tanks for liquid storage offshore drilling structures and production decks blast furnaces missile launchers suon wind tunnels pressure vessels power generating equipment including nuclear reactor vessels the basic material whenever you have a need for strength durability versatility construction economy and efficiency wherever you have a need for a material to withstand tension stress pressure extreme weather conditions and the most prolonged use steel plate is your most Dependable Ally whether you work in Industry Commerce transportation agriculture natural resource Supply National Defense or other vital areas of modern National and international life steel plate it's one of the easiest materials you can work with handle weld fabricate assemble and maintain a satisfying material particularly when it comes to satisfying your stringent design engineering and construction requirements a material that stimulates your imagination steel plate imagine what you can do with it imagine being able to design and construct vessels that can withstand 35,000 lb per square in of pressure pressure vessels of solid steel plate 12 in thick hemispherical heads more than 20 in thick fabricated of layers of thin plate with steel plate below yield strength you can go from tension to compression and back to tension again as many times as you want with no loss of properties you can design 80ton creeper dcks capable of lifting 50 T sections stationary Derek that can raise vessels weighing up to 1,250 tons 200 ft in length you can use steel plates extraordinary tensil strength to contain pressures produced by the complex processing of petroleum offshore and onshore as in these flat bottom steel plate oil tanks whose roofs float supported by the buoyancy of the oil in the [Music] tank or this this bottomless tank which was floated out to sea 58 mi from Land eliminating expensive pipelines by storing oil offshore taking advantage of Steel plates ability to adapt to any surroundings a tank 25 ft High 270 ft in diameter weighing 15,000 tons with a 500,000 Barrel capacity using the oil water displacement method for storing oil without contaminating the Open Sea steel plate is the major material for submersible rigs in shallow water mobile drill ships and drill barges movable jackups for deep Explorations and semi submersible stationary platforms that must withstand 100 mph winds 100t waves and Subzero weather platforms that are built on land barged to the drill site erected and anchored by means of leg Ed tubular piles driven into the sea bottom to help fill our energy hungry needs unlike other materials that are susceptible to environmental changes steel plate is equally at home in the sea or on the land in the Arctic or the Equator it can be erected any time of year in the dead of winter in Alaska or the burning heat of sun in the desert steel plate the product of a painstaking man-made process made in the modern basic oxygen or electric furnace a rigidly formulated carefully regulated chemical process using iron ore and other pre-selected elements carbon for hardness and tensil strength magones for toughness and ductility phosphorus for yield strength and other elements including silicon aluminum nickel tungsten malinam rolled quenched tempered and normalized to bring it to the exact hardness strength toughness and ductility desired form pressed stamped sheared and finished to the exact shape and size desired and then tested to confirm that it conforms to the requested specifications you can choose from a wide variety of steel plate carbon steel plate alloy steel plate clad steel plate a composite of two different Steels in a host of different chemical formulations and property characteristics custommade if need be quality controlled according to rigidly adhered to ASM and asme specifications in well defined tolerances for thickness weight width length and flatness steel plate is a completely manufactured and fabricated material a finished material ready to go to work for you when and where you need it requiring no raw materials at the construction site no trial batches no curing and no guesswork steel plate it's exactly what you specify you want it to be to do the job you need done a material made for the job not on the job a material with no on the- job surprises a material that eliminates the need to improvise to compromise or to modify your original designs if you want it corrosion resistant we can make it corrosion resistant or ductile at inhumanly low temperatures or resistant to hydrogen and other difficult to handle elements or we can open a whole new realm of applications by clading it with pure Metals we can make it as hard and as tough and as strong as you need it to be strong enough to effectively resist tornadoes hurricanes earthquakes and other adverse environmental conditions steel plate it's as convenient to fabricate as it is durable no other material of construction lends itself to so many Precision forms of Fabrication in the shop and in the field steel plate can be rolled pressed punched formed [Music] and [Music] bent it can be sheared it can be cut it can be fitted and it can be machined to precise tolerances steel plate can be ground it can be beveled it can be bored and steel plate can be welded it can be Arc welded using a shielded metal Arc or a gas metal Arc or a flux cord Arc it can be inert gas or electr slag welded in the vertical [Music] position or submerged AR welded or overlay welded for Corrosion [Music] Protection it can even be welded underwater [Music] a welded continuity of strength is produced between the plates so that the physical and chemical properties of the weld are equal to or greater than those of the steel plates [Music] themselves to assure that the the wells are structurally sound the steel plate fabricator uses a wide range of testing procedures including x-ray inspection magnetic particle inspection ultrasonic inspection Eddy Curren inspection die penetrant [Music] inspection inspection procedures that are carefully monitored and checked through physical testing [Music] steel plate welding is one of the many techniques used by steel plate Fabricators to assist you in speeding construction and helping reduced labor costs often steel plate components are completely fabricated in the shop and shipped to the job site thousands of miles away for final assembly and direction for in addition to its other advant ages steel plate is a highly mobile material strong durable versatile Dependable adaptable and mobile to meet the many challenges of modern construction to meet the growing needs for power through nuclear energy and pressure Chambers constructed according to strict asme Boiler code standards impress steel heads 8 in thick 260 in in diameter weighing 29 tons pressure and leak tested to assure maximum operating safety steel plate meeting the growing needs for power through hydroelectric energy from the wondrous niagar in pen stocks to help convert the turbulent Waters into 2 million Kow of harnessed electric power pen stocks containing 676 individual Rings 24 ft in diameter 10 ft long weighing 31 tons each carefully aligned and keyed joined by more than 12 miles of [Music] welds welds requiring more than 47,000 x-rays for inspection hydrostatically tested under 262 lb per square in of [Music] pressure a tremendous engineering [Music] achievement and water brings us to another distinct advantage of steel plate its total absence of ferocity a characteristic recognized by the American Waterworks Association according to whose strict standards a steelplate water tank is the only water tank that is certified watertight leak free a characteristic that accounts for the fact that steel plate is the most widely accepted material for water tank construction steel plate has proved just as exceptional in other important areas in space Chambers to simulate pressures at altitudes of 1 and2 million ft or more for testing components in alloy steel liquid hydrogen storage tanks where temperatures descend to - 423 de F in vacuum Chambers for testing lunar orbits in basic oxygen steel making vessels and in the 630 ft High St Louis Gateway Arch consisting of 6t x 18 ft stainless steel plates butt welded into triangular sections in the [Music] shop shipped to the site hoisted and lined up and welded together to fraction of an inch TP [Music] tolerances resulting in a 3,000 T inverted catary Monument to America's Pioneer and Engineering Spirit whatever the need the possibilities inherent in steel plate are virtual ually Limitless possibilities that become exciting realities economic realities through the various techniques of steel plate Fabrication in itself an exciting and stimulating profession worth considering in the plant or in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] field in engineering design or research as a shop foreman quality assurance specialist metallurgist welding engineer designer project supervisor field supervisor or research and development technician steel plate fabrication a more than $3 billion industry fabricating more than 3 million tons of steel plate annually an industry based on one of the strongest most durable most versatile materials ever developed steel plate imagine what you can do with [Music] it