How To Use Girder In A Sentence

The block is still just a skeleton of girders.
This is the first bike that will exploit the Renovatio's frameless concept: The 132-cubic-inch, S&S-built engine is a load-bearing structural element, suspended like a girder between the stupendous front engine mount and rear pivot. The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles
Couple of months ago we had this ironworker falls off a girder, Finch has to break the news to the wife. TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
They were all removed from the base of the tower where the metallic girders intercross, police said. Investigators target Pana Wave over minor vehicle offenses
His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?” The Bride of Lammermoor

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To do this you need to make marks, called layout marks, on the ledger and girder that show where each joist will be located.
The pit is reinforced with a lattice of steel girders from top to bottom.
This is due to a folding of the blastodermic wall by what is called the "girder," a plug-shaped growth of Rauber's "roof-layer. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
Four men were arrested at the scene following the discovery of the cigarettes, which were smuggled into the country in steel girders.
In the illustrations, h, m, and b are the high, intermediate, and low pressure cylinders of one set of engines; as will be seen, each cylinder is on a separate frame connected by girders; directly above the cylinders are the two low and the one high pressure air cylinders, b¹, m¹, and h¹ respectively. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891
These segments were supported by steel truss girders on falsework.
Everything, every single nut, bolt, screw, girder, steel cable, had to be lifted to those heights by helicopter, and winched down.
It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
You can admire the floors in original cooked tiles and the interesting girders of the ceiling, divided by wood worked lacunars.
The stair is further supported by the girders at each floor, and by a steel arm that projects from the south wall at each landing.
As the cabin lurched back and forth and the sounds of rocket fire percussed the urgent, faltering rhythm of our right engine, I unfastened my seat belt, and, finding my center of gravity, rose from my seat, moving past aides shock still in their chairs, arms locked like girders against their arm rests in terror, and walked up the center aisle to the pilot's cabin. Hillary: Pledged Delegates "Just Like" Supers �� They Can Switch
He delivered newspapers and worked at a steel firm, shaping girders for bridges for a little while.
Segmented con-, Crete liners, precast tubes, lattice girders and liner plates. CORMORANT
The broken remains of the engine room form a short but convoluted route past twisted girders and scattered machinery.
Go through the derelict farm, through a sheepfold, and follow the Shalloch Burn which is crossed on a girder bridge about a quarter of a mile beyond the farm.
The structure currently consists of a 100-ft high framework of steel girders which towers over the town centre.
But all the titanic steel structure above and the unfloored bottom-chords and girders of the outer, or extension, arm of the cantilever had been swept bare of snow by the winter gales and left glistening with the glaze of the last shower of sleet. Out of the Primitive
Only about seven stories of the north tower were still in place, the girders splayed.
The Canadians are teaching the Afghans how to "overbridge" the damaged bridge with a temporary span made of steel girders. Dose.ca Music briefs
It's possible to precast columns, column caps (also called bent caps), girders and beams, decks, complete bridge sub- or superstructures, complete bridge spans, and complete bridges.
Do a similar layout on the girder, so that you know exactly where each joist crosses the girder.
Only the bridge made a connection between the two, breaking the skyline a quarter of a mile away with its dark skeletonic girders curving across the snows like the bones of a dead rainbow. The Sinkiang Executive
And he suggested that lives were saved by new steel girders and a sprinkler system.
The fifth is a splashy fountain made from recycled steel girders.
The tube pressure state of the arch rib and the new techniques such as lifting and jacking-up longitudinal girder and beam using continuous jack.
Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it.
To stiffen the shallow vault, curved steel girders brace the two sides.
Steel girders have been used in its construction, which could allow for building of a second storey or mezzanine.
They walk steel girders high in the air unhampered by any fear of heights.
We found another such tank lying among the rubble of decking and girders.
They together form what is called a cantilever; if you lay the letter V on its side, the open end will represent roughly the place where the arch and girders start from the tower. Chatterbox, 1906
Most often this involved a segment of a girder web.
The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders.
A wrought-iron girder swing bridge at the Northern Entrance Lock may be the original installed by Brunel.
A column or girder which is out of line or plumb not only looks bad but may be required to be removed and corrected by the engineer. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
Still there was no movement among all the arrased, girdered, pillared hosts. The Metal Monster
The struts of the high girders, which plunge down from the top like the tracks of a rollercoaster, are not absolutely straight.
They would strengthen the bridge without making major changes in the steel girder system above that might look out of place.
As they floated after Tally, scraping past girders and jagged chunks of concrete, Aya and Frizz collected scratches like they were crawling through a thornbush. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
These things have collapsed buildings by taking out the steel girders in the center.
A finite segment model has been negative shear lag in box girder with varying depth.
It can be used to strengthen reinforced and prestressed beams, girders, and slabs to provide additional flexural strength.
The cable stays are anchored to the girder using a simple steel gusset plate welded directly to the top flange.
Based on coordinating relations of steel and concrete, the grillage structure finite-element method was adopted to analyze the space mechanical effect of curved girder bridges.
Segmented con-, Crete liners, precast tubes, lattice girders and liner plates. CORMORANT
He makes columns and girders with an axe, shapes floorboards and shelves with a plane, cuts fine openwork and carvings accurately, giving as excellent a finish as his skill will allow.
In earthquake and hurricane areas there may be further requirements on how the piers are fastened to the foundations, the girders to the posts, and the joists to the girders.
Internally, the building is divided into a nave, transepts and side aisles composed of ornamental cast-iron columns and girders and a gallery 12 feet wide runs all round the Hall.
The building was an architectural first, using steel girders as the basis for construction.
Lattice girders stiffened the outside formwork in both vertical and horizontal directions so that it could sustain wind loads while being repositioned.
The Aussi government recently launched a $12.9 billion program to girder the country's water supplies against climate change and is requiring ongoing climate adaptation reviews every five years. Gregory Unruh: Business in a Post-Holocene World
Then toenail the joist through the joist into the girder.
The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
Some of the supporting steel girders buckled with the heat and the floor cracked.
What with your artfully juxtaposed angles of pub roof and gasometer girders, and your stark relief foliage echoing the passing clouds in the background. Cricket & All That Gas
The only traces of the towers are a series of steel girders torn into crazy angles and already turning a rusty brown from the moisture coming off the nearby river.
This was a stark, bleak space, with dirt on the floor, steel girders and barred-up windows and tubes of neon lights.
In the games room, supported by slate and iron pillars, a tracery of iron girders held the low glass ceiling.
The girder is in a position parallel to the ledger and supports the opposite end of the joists.
We use a material called epoxy to bind these girders.
Treetops, steel girders and jagged, exposed construction timbers jutted from the water like skeletal fingers. DELUGE (Part 43) – Brian Keene
The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders.
Mechanics behaviors of Sutong bridge were computed by this method, and longitudinal stress, transversal stress of plates of the girder and section stress distribution were discussed consequently.
We reached the naked abutment, and drew ourselves forward on our faces in the shadow of its rails till we could nearly touch the grey skeleton of underhung girders, and see the single sentry leaning against the other abutment, sixty yards across the gulf. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Gear later said that their genesis probably lay in the towering pitheads, woods and girders of his industrial childhood.
A much used early metal girder bridge was the Waitaki River road and rail bridge.
When the neighbouring Skerne Ironworks closed in 1879, Wilson's decided to expand into the empty bridge girder manufacturing market.
The glue supplied to stick nail on nail would do a sterling job of adhering the girders of the Forth Bridge together.
It is the introduction of this rigid girder which is responsible for the descriptive generic term of "semi-rigid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
It depicts a construction worker hanging desperately from a steel girder on a building site.
The girder was clinched into the wall
The piers and abutments are concrete with ten steel trusses with a curved steel plate girder at each end.
Then, having overcome this fearsome physical handicap on race day, Mansell almost knocked himself out when he stood up at the wrong moment and struck his head on an iron girder as the jeep bringing the winner from parc ferm drove through an entry in the pit buildings. Chequered Conflict
It appears to be solidly built, its thick iron girders criss-crossing the river.
Steel girders have been used in its construction, which could allow for building of a second storey or mezzanine.
The fine columns and the great pediment collapsed and some of the girders followed it. Bomber
Michael, or Girders, as he was affectionately known, was a good father and grandad, kindly neighbour and friend.
At intervals inside the elevated roadway's box girders - which have the closed-in feel of a submarine, if a submarine were made of concrete - are anchor blocks, called deadmen, cast into the structure. NYT > Global Home
He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below.
Slabs, beams, and girders all make use of straight and trussed bars.
But then unbreakable generosity of spirit ran through her nature like girders.
There it is!" she exclaims, pointing to a dark blob, perched incongruously halfway along the main girder supporting the rig's permanently burning gas flare. A working life: The gas rig technician
Stiffening in the other vertical plane is added by diagonal braces between the lattice girders on both gable walls.
To transfer the weight of the ballast and the box girder to the longitudinal central beam that anchors the stays, vertical posttensioning has been provided in the fin walls.
The great girder bridges over the Menai Strait and at Saltash near Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Pier blocks serve as a transition from the posts supporting the girder to the concrete foundation footings.
The slender girders, electrical cables and insulators look as if they had just come out of a package.
It plays out on and around a set of rusty metal girders and a fallen cross. Times, Sunday Times
The wing must also resist twisting forces, done either by a monocoque "D" tube structure forming the leading edge, or by the aforementioned linking two spars in some form of box beam or lattice girder structure. Transition Team Update - NASA Watch
They've stripped the ceiling back to reveal the girders and piping, like some dated metropolitan style bar, yet they've kept the chandelier and the flock wallpaper and painted everything else an undistinguished sludgy brown.
CONBOX is specifically developed for the analysis and design of post-tensioned and cast-in-place reinforced concrete box girder and slab bridges constructed on falsework .
The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.
A girder is a beam that supports other beams or is made up of separate beams joined together.
You can't possibly blow it up, the mesh is mutually supporting, every girder bears the weight of everything above it.
They may be the stronger sex, powerful and athletic and all that, but men are as supple as steel girders.
The girder can rest on top of the posts attached with metal fasteners or two girders can sandwich the posts and be bolted or nailed to them.
The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.
On approaching the road overbridge, they noticed that the girder had collapsed and immediately stopped the train.
The only traces of the towers are a series of steel girders torn into crazy angles and already turning a rusty brown from the moisture coming off the nearby river.
Most often this involved a segment of a girder web.
W.J. M. Rankine proved (_Applied M.chanics_, p. 370) that the necessary strength of a stiffening girder would be only one-seventh part of that of an independent girder of the same span as the bridge, suited to carry the same moving load (not including the dead weight of the girder which is supported by the chain). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.
The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders.
One man, a large fellow with arms like steel girders, stormed towards them, demanding to know what they were doing.
By comparing the modeling analysis of grid frame method and single girder method of skew bridge, the instructional conclusion can be received.
Each concrete pylon carries two planes of fan-shaped cables anchored to the edge girders.
Between the girders they draped themselves in long, stellated garlands; grouped themselves in innumerable, kaleidoscopic patterns. The Metal Monster
The 7.5 m long anchor span consists of a 10 m wide, 9 m deep posttensioned central box girder that houses anchorages for the backstays.
These segments were supported by steel truss girders on falsework.
In the tetrastyle, the girders are supported at the angles by columns, an arrangement which relieves and strengthens the girders; for thus they have themselves no great span to support, and they are not loaded down by the crossbeams. The Ten Books on Architecture
As he passed under the bridge he grasped one of the girders and climbed safely into the superstructure.
Based on coordinating relations of steel and concrete, the grillage structure finite-element method was adopted to analyze the space mechanical effect of curved girder bridges.
The girder is square in cross-section.
Key to the effort was the fast production of specialized machines that fabricated precast concrete girders and fitted their edges with milled steel flanges.
There are empty oil drums protruding from the bank, long steel girders lying above the waterfall (believed to be the old tramline tracks from Melville), and large blocks of concrete scattered around.
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The steel strut is a fabricated plate box girder weighing 800 lb/ft.
Particular risks here are girders projecting from broken wreckage.
Precast girder segment is widely used in the construction of Hong Kong West Railway.
It will be possible in the near future to precast long deck and girder systems using reactive powder concrete that will make very rapid bridge construction possible.
The roof was reinforced with steel girders to help support the multi-ton tanks that sat above us.
Black construction workers tight-rope walked along the high steel girders of the airport building.
A wrought-iron girder swing bridge at the Northern Entrance Lock may be the original installed by Brunel.
To stiffen the shallow vault, curved steel girders brace the two sides.
Pier blocks serve as a transition from the posts supporting the girder to the concrete foundation footings.
Called the Window on the World, it is a true cabinet of curiosities with more that 800 objects, including a Tay Bridge girder and a 1930s gyrocopter, displayed up to 18 metres high. New National Museum of Scotland unveiled after £47m revamp
The girder trusses running in the north-south direction were designed as continuous trusses and had haunch ends at the column lines.
His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?” The Bride of Lammermoor
The quickest and riskiest way was to balance on the six-inch-wide girder and walk boldly over like a tight-rope man. THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
If you are resting the girder on top of the posts, use metal fasteners.
Then toenail the joist through the joist into the girder.
Steel girders have been used in its construction, which could allow for building of a second storey or mezzanine.
Internally, the building is divided into a nave, transepts and side aisles composed of ornamental cast-iron columns and girders.
The workmen trudging among the rubble and girders in a corner of the site earmarked for expansion go about their business under the silent gaze of two giant faces that represent Ealing past and present.
As the cabin lurched back and forth and the sounds of rocket fire percussed the urgent, faltering rhythm of our right engine, I unfastened my seat belt, and, finding my center of gravity, rose from my seat, moving past aides frozen still in their seats, arms locked like girders against their arm rests in terror, and walked up the center aisle to the pilot's cabin. Hillary Campaign: She "Misspoke" About Bosnia Sniper Incident
Internally, the building is divided into a nave, transepts and side aisles composed of ornamental cast-iron columns and girders and a gallery 12 feet wide runs all round the Hall.
There was no concrete in any part of the line, very few iron girders and not many iron "humpies" or "elephant backs" to make the roofs of dugouts. The Old Front Line
Further back, a solitary girder stands upright about 2m above the general level of the wreck.

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