Data_info.csv: Database of 'Residual Stress Measurements on Hot-rolled Wide Flange Steel Cross Sections' including cross-sectional and material characteristics as well as information relevant to ploting the residual stress distributions. Distributions.zip: Residual stress distributions for the web and the flanges. To be unziped and positioned at the same location with the 'Data_info.csv', 'Processor.m' and 'QP_Coefficients' folder. Processor.m: MATLAB code that plots the residual stress distributions of a selected research work. QP_Coefficients.zip: Coefficients of a proposed optimization method to fit the measured residual stresses in the web and the flanges. To be unziped and positioned at the same location with the 'Data_info.csv', 'Processor.m' and 'Distributions' folder. {"references": ["Skiadopoulos A, Sousa A de C e, Lignos DG. Proposed residual stress model for hot-rolled wide flange steel cross sections. Proceedings 10th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures, vol. 6, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Ernst & Sohn; 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cepa.2736.", "Skiadopoulos A, de Castro e Sousa A, Lignos DG. Experiments and proposed model for residual stresses in hot-rolled wide flange shapes. Journal of Constructional Steel Research 2023; 210: 108069. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2023.108069."]}