Hubbard, who was proud of his strength, climbed on top and pulled and shifted the three six-inch girders to more suitable positions.
Six-inch girders to support the concrete roof, and an underground passage as a funk-hole from bombs, shells, and gas.
Hundreds of bracing bars for bridges and girders will be cut off all alike, and drilled or punched from a templet bar, so that they are ready to take their place in bridge or girder without any adjustments or fitting.
In some boilers the girders are partly supported by slings from the crown of the boiler.
These are supported by cross girders resting upon brackets secured to the outer shell.
The tops of the chambers are usually stayed by strong girders resting upon the tube plates and chamber back plates.
The whole boiler is enclosed in brickwork, into which the supporting columns and girders are built.
The railway is unfenced throughout, and passes from field to field on short open girders with a dyke excavated below, thus preventing the passage of cattle.
The change of length of iron girders caused by variation of temperature has not unfrequently brought down the whole edifice into which they were admitted.
As the depth of the main girders was sufficient to admit of overhead bracing, strong plate-iron diaphragms, of the form shown on the sketch, were riveted to the main girders at every 50 feet.
On the other hand, with the truss-girders placed at 40-foot centres to suit roof-principals resting on the tops of girders, as shown in Fig.
In the sketch given a row of cast-iron girders are placed across the top of the walls of the tank-house, to carry the tank, the plate-joints of the latter being made to coincide with the centre lines of the girders.
These small compound girders rest on bearing-plates of wrought or cast iron, and are held 135 together and to gauge by tie-rods, as shown.
Two main girders are used, of sufficient depth to form parapets or screens for the finished roadway.
In such cases it is compulsory to use as little of it as possible, and to resort to iron or steel both for the girders and a large portion of the piers.
Lattice, or truss, girders are preferable to plate girders for swing-bridges of considerable opening, as they present less surface area to the action of the wind.
Three main girders were used, the centre one being 143 double the strength of each of the outside girders.
The curved side brackets merely act as bracing between the carriage-way girders and footpath girders.
They are constructed by carrying the line of rails on strong balks of timber or small girders placed across the top of walled-in coal-yards or divided areas.
Another way to avoid the introduction of large span-roof principals, and to preserve the covered area free from intervening columns, is to erect strong truss-girders extending across at right angles from the main walls.
These truss-girders are placed at suitable distances, and 272 carry simple roof-principals of convenient spans.
In the Corinthian, the girders and roof-opening are constructed on these same principles, but the girders run in from the side walls, and are supported all round on columns.
Their height up to the girders should be one fourth less than their width, the rest being the proportion assigned to the ceiling and the roof above the girders.
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 girders are braced together and carry the framing for the bucket chains, gears, etc.
The iron structure connecting the ships is composed of four upright box-form stanchions on both ships, connected at the top by two strong box girders with tie pieces supporting the main framing.
Patsy had wrenched herself free from his hold and was leaning over the wind-shield, beckoning frantically to a figure mounted on one of the girders of the bridge.
People were pressed together in that big, shady retreat, girt round with brown serge drapery under the girdersof the lofty iron flooring of the upstairs galleries.
The sparrows had flown up to the forest of iron girders again, and one could hear their sharp little chirps, the twittering with which they serenaded the setting sun, under the warm panes of the glass roof.
The internal surface of these girders is vertical and the external is inclined.
It was found that the main beams were only ten inches square, and had two mortise-holes, where the girders were inserted, facing each other, so that only three inches of solid timber were left.
The five girders of wrought iron cross the street, here only forty-two feet wide, and the span is sixty feet, in order to allow of future enlargement of the street.
Gigantic globes of cool white light shamed the pale sunbeams that filtered down through the girders and wires.
The platform slanted up on either side, and the tall buildings rose beyond, vast dim ghosts, their inscriptions and advertisements indistinctly seen, and up through the girders and cables was a faint interrupted ribbon of pallid sky.
Their higher tiers formed an openwork ofgirders through which lifts and staircases ascended.
He waved the people from him, saw the man in yellow dropping off through the ribs, saw the crowd cleft down the line of the girders by his gesture.
Ostrog had chosen a huge commanding pile of crushed and overthrown masonry, and on this a stage of timbers and metal girders was being hastily constructed.
A few steps more brought him into the centre of the circle of steel girders which supported the landing stage.
The floor quivered under his feet, and ominous creaking and snapping sounds reverberated through the outer shell, as the steelgirders of the landing stage were gradually relieved of its weight.
The horizontal girders carrying the roadway, are connected to the arches by verticals of the form and section shown in the drawings.
The carriage road on the platform consists of buckled plates resting on transverse girders spaced 6 ft.
The longitudinal girders are of double trellis, as will be seen by reference to Figs.
The arched girders are connected together, in the central portion, by a system of diagonal bracing, as is shown on Figs.
Bridges, including those over the Vyrnwy at Llanymynech, and the Severn at Pool Quay, were built with an extra span for a second pair of rails, but the girders still remain without further completion.
The piers carrying the girders are formed of columns 8ft.
This dam consists of eight girders or sections, 80 feet long, 3 feet wide and 6 feet high.
Nearby is the crane with a 300-horsepower motor, that picks up these girders and drops them into the slots in the walls of the lock.
The result in the present case is probably greatly due to the careful workmanship, and to the fact that the sides and ends of the plates are planed throughout, so that the webs of the girders get a fair bearing on the top and bottom plates.
One was nothing but a foundation, with prostrate steel pillars and girders scattered about over it, and numerous deep pools of water.
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.
The boilers were supported by girders and columns as in No.
The drum in this design was supported bygirders resting on the brickwork.
The expansion of girders may thrust out the side-walls.
Cannot iron girders be used in any way to make them safe?
The tie-rods to take the strain of the flat arches must expand and become useless, and the whole of the lateral strain be thrown on the girders and side-walls, perhaps weak enough already.
Still others had tugged too strenuously at heavy girders and the slow, but crushing inertia of an enormous, backward-swinging beam in free fall had ripped their space suits asunder and fractured their spines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
