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load-bearing

ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of bearing a structural load
    a supporting wall

How To Use load-bearing In A Sentence

  • The exterior of the Oklahoma City Federal Building is a load-bearing wall that enables forces to arch over any damaged portions while the wall resists lateral and gravity loads.
  • The building's front face is pocked with dark-metal "tie-backs"—the kind that were at one point used to help restrain load-bearing brick walls of buildings, in the days before most structures rested safe and sound on reinforced steel skeletons. High Line Hits a Snag
  • The hyperboloid is then indented and connected to a series of hyperbolic paraboloids through their common directrices, thereby leading the ensemble toward the four load-bearing points to the ground.
  • And just as importantly to masonry contractors, designers will be specifying more of their load-bearing walls as grouted and reinforced.
  • I've always considered it the preserve of the shop-bought trifle, and as such, rather beneath my dignity, but Helen Saberi makes a convincing case for it as "a solid sheet of load-bearing substance – the counterpart of a screeded concrete floor". How to make perfect trifle
  • Shakedown analysis is an important part of the structural design or the research on load-bearing capacity.
  • The non-load-bearing wall material should by utilization of waste each kind of non-load-bearing artificial brick and the light board primarily.
  • Many of the jokes land thanks to a load-bearing performance by Lengel and the tightly paced scenes. Tony Bartolone: Play It Again and Again, Sam
  • Because of the inherent stiffness of the external diagrid, the central core is required to act only as a load-bearing element and is free from diagonal bracing, producing more flexible floor plates.
  • The medieval cathedrals were bound by the necessities of load-bearing walls to be narrow, to push in as they pulled up.
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