{"id":11540,"date":"2020-01-26T03:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/cnstrctr\/glossary\/camber\/"},"modified":"2020-01-26T03:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T03:42:12","slug":"camber","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/glossary\/camber\/","title":{"rendered":"Camber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of\u00a0<b>structural steel<\/b>,\u00a0<b>camber<\/b>\u00a0denotes a curve in the vertical plane; sweep denotes a curve in the horizontal plane.\u00a0<b>Steel<\/b>\u00a0members produced in a\u00a0<b>steel<\/b>mill have at least some\u00a0<b>camber<\/b>\u00a0and some sweep.<\/p>\n<p>There are occasions, however, when camber and sweep are required in a structural steel application.\u00a0 For example, cambered beams may offer superior support in a building by reducing any sag from the weight of a concrete floor.\u00a0 A canopy may be supported by a beam with sweep that creates an edge curved the \u201ceasy way,\u201d i.e. against the weak axis.<\/p>\n<p>Camber can be induced in a structural member in several ways.\u00a0 Probably the most common is cambering on what is called a \u201ccambering machine,\u201d a device that holds a steel section at two points and then applies pressure through one or two hydraulic cylinders to a point between the two points.<\/p>\n<p>This information was originally posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmrp.com\/blog\/bending\/curving-and-cambering-steel-sections.html\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of\u00a0structural steel,\u00a0camber\u00a0denotes a curve in the vertical plane; sweep denotes a curve in the horizontal plane.\u00a0Steel\u00a0members produced in a\u00a0steelmill have at least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[468],"glossary-tags":[505,506,507,508,509],"class_list":["post-11540","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","glossary-categories-division-05-metals","glossary-tags-beams","glossary-tags-camber","glossary-tags-steel","glossary-tags-structural-steel","glossary-tags-structure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}