Mimb277 Steel Structure Papers

MIMB 227 STEEL STRUCTURESLecturer See. Osman Brgehan AYSUWEEK 1.Translated from Turkish to English ZZZ.onlinedoctranslator.comTOPICSWeek 1. Production History of Iron and SteelonePRODUCTION HISTORY OF IRON AND STEELThe iron and steel industry is one of the most important and traditionally oldest production sectors in the world.About 3,000 years ago, iron was a basis of people's culture and civilization, and even then attempts were made to obtain iron from ore.Since then, the problem has always been the same - to convert iron ore into a metallic state by applying various techniques to make it economically usable.2The beginnings of iron and steel production date back to ancient times.The extraction of iron was probably discovered simultaneously in various parts of the world (West Africa, Southeastern Europe, South India, China) about 1,000 years before Christ. It is a fact that even before it reached historical importance, civilizations knew how to obtain iron and were able to process this metal and turn it into weapons, tools and equipment.In any case, the use of iron must have started long before the period we call the Iron Age today (from 800 BC). According to the information we have today, iron production started in Anatolia and probably in the north