Wild for this purpose, by the use of which the testing of a girder occupied but a few minutes.
This, equally with the white method, would present one mass of indistinctness; the relief of the cast-iron would disappear, and each column and girder would present to the eye but a flat silhouette.
The girder thus described forms a double truss, in which the diagonal braces are subjected both to the strain of compression and tension.
Joists about two feet six inches apart bear from girder to girder parallel to the trusses, and resting on the binding-timbers.
Iron girderbridges were also constructed, and thus the railway trains were carried across roads and narrow rivers at any required inclination, supported on flat beams of iron.
It was Peroo who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from destruction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in its slings, threatening to slide out sideways.
The youngest tapped his girder on the edge of his iron sole and laughed.
One sat up and chipped earth from his huge boots with an iron girder he grasped in his hand; the second rested on his elbow; the third whittled a pine tree into shape and made a smell of resin in the air.
The upstandinggirder was discovered by one of our men, and immediately an attempt was made to get troops across it.
The crossing of the river by means of this broken girder was one of the most stirring incidents yet recorded.
Something boomed, grated, boomed again and Temple watched anothergirder bounce off the floor, dip one end into the molten pool and clatter out a stub.
He got up trembling, stepped back, half tripped on the stump of a girder as his eyes strayed in fascination to the viewing screen.
It was Peroo who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from destruction when the new wire-rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in its slings, threatening to slide out sideways.
There's less than twenty-four feet between the protection girder and the surface.
Carefully making his way along one of the struts that held the anti-mine-girder to the side of the submarine, Dick swung himself upon the nearest fender.
More than that, the shattered girder is an encumbrance.
We were just about to start for a jaunt up the Dardanelles; that is the reason for this gadget," and he indicated the curved latticed girder above his head.
Assuming that the spaces between the verticals of the girder become continually narrower, they become the tension cracks of the concrete beam.
In Pittsburg, some years ago, a plate-girder span collapsed under the weight of a locomotive which it had carried many times.
This style of girder has been considered by American engineers rather as a curiosity, if not a monstrosity.
To give an example of how a plate girder might be designed: Many plate girders have rivets in the flanges, spaced 6 in.
By an open-web girder, the speaker means a girder which has a lower and upper chord connected by verticals.
The stresses in the web of a deep steel girder are not known, and the web is strengthened by a liberal number of stiffening angles, which no expert can figure out to a nicety.
Under full load, therefore, approximately one-half of the load went to the long-span girder and the other half to the short-span girder.
Defn: One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor.
Half-lattice girder, a girder consisting of horizontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles.
Defn: A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
Lattice girder, a girder consisting of longitudinal bars united by diagonal crossing bars.
Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.
Tubular girder, a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
Something heavy glided past his shoulder and remained lying on his back and pressed him down to the floor; it was the girder which slowly had slipped out of place.
It was a fireman who had thrown thegirder aside, and was about to carry him out of the house.
The main hull is thus divided into a number of compartments, each separated from one another by means of these latticed radial discs or wheel-like structures and otherwise enclosed by the sixteen latticed girder longitudinals or beams.
It boiled, it burned, it writhed, sinking, smoking through the spaces in the naked girder work.
Geo was holding tight onto the girder in front of him.
It dropped its chain and picked a girder from the floor.
Some one shouted; the signalman pulled at his rope; the derrick-arm swung in a little with the girderteetering at the end of the chain.
Then, as the girder settled into place and the two men slid down the column to the floor, the spectators turned back to their tea-table.
The iron arm swung the girder above two upright columns, lowered it, and the girderbegan to groove into place.
The most interesting moment of the steel-man's job had come, when a girder was to be jockeyed into place.
The lifting efficiency is doubled by allowing the centre third of the girder to be open, as the dead air from the front part escapes, and the back part forms a new entering edge.
The whole of the back plane is now supported by two curved members, which start from the girder of the leading edge and curve down to the T-section longitudinals which form the rigid part of the chassis.
The short span of the planes, for instance, with the dihedral angle, at once suggests girder construction (see Figs.
Longitudinal rigidity is secured by means of the triangular duct which forms a complete girder from end to end.
That had some sacks and a cushion, and was broad, with a girder for back.
The blowing up of the Tugela bridge at Colenso--a structure consisting of five iron lattice girder spans of 100 ft.
The construction of the girder forms is shown by Fig.
The girder reinforcement was erected by piece work at a cost of $1.
The particular feature of interest in this building was the fabrication of all the column and girder reinforcement into unit frames and cylinders in temporary workshops on the site.
For slabs; stop concrete at center of span, or directly over middle of supporting girder or beam; stop always with vertical joints.
An example of more elaborate methods is had in the following description of the processes employed in fabricating girder frames and hooped column reinforcement for a large factory building.
It is well also to give the girdermolds a camber or to crown them to allow for settling of the falsework.
Form for Slab andGirder Floor Between I-Beams] ~Concrete Slab and Girder Floors.
One full depth side form and the side of girder No.
In slab and girder construction, the pouring should be continuous from bottom of girder to top of slab.
New forms were made for each floor except the sides of the girder molds which were re-used so far as they would fit, but the roof forms were made from lumber used for the floors.
They were cut to a length of 10 feet so as to project beyond the outer girder to provide for a piazza overhanging the Goblins' Platform.
Then to the main trunk we nailed the second girder on a level with the first.
Two high roads besides the three drives are crossed on the level, and several brooks by girder bridges, the longest span being 28 ft.
Special cast-iron sleepers are employed on the girder bridges.
The flexible girder system so reduces the "sag" that the maximum economy and durability are obtained, and the gradients over which the load has to travel can be made as easy and regular as those upon an ordinary railway.
Laying the empty pistol on the girder beside him, he stripped as quickly as his precarious perch would permit.
A single hurtling dive out and downward from the girder would send his own body crashing squarely into the metal strand.
The "fly rail" consists of a girder made especially strong, to take the weight and pull of the ropes and scenes which are brought down from the gridiron.
The "fly floor" is supported by joists running from the fly-rail girder into the wall of the stage.
The transom probably originated from the spaces left between the ends of beams resting on the main girder that spanned the principal opening (see Fig.
The supporting girder in this instance is embedded in the wall and coated over with adobe, obscuring the construction.
The use of a pier or buttress-projection for the support of a roof girder that is characteristic of Tusayan is not practiced at Zuñi to any extent.
While this was going on, another gang of men were laying the foundations of a girder bridge which was to span a gully between this cutting and Tsavo Station.
It was next "jacked" up from the trucks, which were hauled away empty, the temporary bridge was dismantled, and the girder finally lowered gently into position.
Later in the evening, I went out as usual to watch for our elusive foes, and took up my position in a crib made of sleepers which I had built on a big girder close to a camp which I thought was likely to be attacked.
Great wooden beams were stretched across from the stone piers to these cribs, and laid with rails; and the girder was run over its exact place, while still on the trucks in which it had been brought up from the coast.
When the last girder was thus successfully placed, no time was lost in linking up the permanent way, and very soon I had the satisfaction of seeing the first train cross the finished work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beam; rafter; timber
