Fatigue test of steel rod essential

Speakers at a seminar on ‘fatigue properties of steel’ in Bangladesh underscored on Saturday the need for ensuring fatigue test before use of steel rod and other steel products in construction works. They said that most people involved in civil construction works follow traditional tensile test of steel to use rod. “But in this traditional way of testing, many defects in steel cannot be detected,” said one speaker from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) at the seminar, organised by the country’s leading steel manufacturer BSRM at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel, according to a news agency.