I am looking at website on google based on the terms structural steel fabrication and simply steel fabricationI know that there must be a difference between the two terms, but it seems that many website authors use the two terms interchangeably.Do you know the key differences between the two terms?
Steel fabrication can include any kind of manufacture of steel. Structural steel is a narrow subset which would include, for example, I-beams and would not usually include stainless steel, sheet steel, rolled steel, etc.
Structural steel is steel construction material, a profile, formed with a specific shape or cross section and certain standards of chemical composition and strength. Structural steel shape, size, composition, strength, storage, etc, is regulated in most industrialized countries. Fabrication, when used as an industrial term, applies to the building of machines, structures and other equipment, by cutting, shaping and assembling components made from raw materials. Small businesses that specialize in metal are called fab shops. Steel fabrication shops and machine shops have overlapping capabilities, but fabrication shops generally concentrate on the metal preparation, welding and assembly aspect while the machine shop is more concerned with the machining of parts.
