Steel Curved Roof Construction Details

Whether the arched roof will be installed over a solid deck or open framing mbci has a panel that fits the application.

Steel curved roof construction details.

This facility opted for a half circle roof. The standard fastening pattern is permitted over the rest of the sheet. If a sheet must be bent a gentle 90 degree bend is the maximum recom mended. Metal should not be re bent once it has been formed nor should it be folded back on itself.

The curved roof construction details for this massive barrel roof included thirty seven wide flange 16 x 57 l beams that were curved in the strong axis or the hardway to create a 14 10 radius semicircle. The majority of curved steel for use in construction is curved by roller bending which is a cold process. When curving the beams the curvature had to make a complete 180 degree rotation. Bending and bowing aluminum and steel roofing and siding sheets are rollformed from hardened tempered metal for maximum strength.

When a metal roofing sheet must be installed on a curved roof screws should be installed at every overlapping rib at the sheet ends to resist the natural tendency of the metal to spring back. Curved roof fascia systems when you want to add a metal curved roof or fascia to your design mbci offers the choice in three distinctive and complete panel systems for your use. Vertical seam panels unless hand formed or customer curved do not work real well on concave or convex surfaces. Every once in awhile someone asks me about putting metal on a roof that is either round or else has a concave or convex curved roof up the rafter like a bell shape.