On the top of these piers rest steel cantilevers over steel pin rockers upon cast iron bedplates; the cantilevers are secured at one end to a column, while the other ends go through the full thickness of the new wall.
From the tops of these piers large steel cantilevers were erected projecting over the crown of the tunnel, and on these steel girders were fixed and the building constructed upon them.
The cantilevers rest on two gigantic steel towers, standing on massive stone piers 39 feet high.
Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers.
The centre girder may be built on the cantilevers and rolled into place or lifted from the water-level.
The girders weighing 2000 tons carry a double track for trains between the girders and on each side on cantilevers a trolley track, roadway and footway.
The shore piers carry cantilevers projecting one way over the river openings and the other way over a shore span where it is secured to an anchorage.
Lastly, some bridges are composed of cantilevers and suspended girders.
The side girders rest on the cantilevers on 15 in.
The cantilevers are fixed to the shore side of the towers.
The girders over the second and fourth spans are extended as cantilevers over the adjoining spans.
Waddell has shown that, in some cases, it is convenient to erect simple independent spans, by building them out as cantilevers and converting them into independent girders after erection.
In this case the shore ends of the cantilevers are anchored to the abutments.
The outer ends of the shore cantilevers are loaded to balance half the weight of the central girder, the rolling load, and 200 tons in addition.
Every detail of the lower parts was clear and distinct as an architectural drawing, the intricate lattice-work of enormous cantilevers and girders seemed etched on the inside of a great opal bowl.
On two stages right up at the very summit, suspended by a system of cantilevers of the most intricate modern construction and of toughened steel.
Within the scaffoldings now towered the walls of the cathedral, and what had been a network of girders and cantilevers and gantries and bridges became a building with floors, a ship with decks.
Louise stared curiously up at the tall cantilevers which pointed skyward.
A boat with a high cabin could not possibly go through when thecantilevers were down.
There was a grinding of gears as the tall cantilevers began to move.
Warm clothing was supplied to them, and even warm food and shelter were to be found on the summits of those windy towers, and out on the ends of the cantilevers over the icy river.
The broader base helps to prevent the bridge see-sawing when a heavy train goes over it, and it is further assisted by the landward ends of the other two cantilevers being heavily loaded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cantilevers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
