girder
IPA: gˈɝdɝ
noun
- A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
- One who girds; a satirist.
Advertisement
Examples of "girder" in Sentences
- The body engages flush against the girder.
- The girder was retracted by reversing the process.
- Brick arches support the spaces between the girders.
- The weight of the cables suspending the girder was 250 tons.
- It is the largest steel box girder bridge in the United States.
- The underside of the girder was 82 feet above the high water level.
- In 1961, the bowstring truss span was replaced with an girder bridge.
- The arcuate members cooperate with the plates to form closed box girders.
- The car bodies support themselves by resting on their bogie and on the girder.
- The image to the right gives a good example of the idea of a continuous girder.
Advertisement
Advertisement