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Girder   /gˈərdər/   Listen
Girder

noun
1.
A beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure.



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"Girder" Quotes from Famous Books



... experiments of Hodgkinson supplied a safe foundation of facts to work upon, and cast iron has ever since retained its hold. Thomas Paine's celebrated bridge at Sunderland had a span of 236 feet and a rise of 34 feet, and was constructed of six ribs, and is remarkable from the fact that the arched girder principle used in the Coalbrookdale and Buildwas bridges was rejected, that the ribs were composed of segments or voussoirs, each made up of 125 parts, thus treating the material in the manner of stone. Each voussoir was a cast-iron framed piece two feet long and five feet in depth, and these ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various

... record had gone back to just before 1851 (the date of the great exhibition), I might have described much progress in the principles of girder construction; for shortly prior to that date, the plain cast-iron beam, with the greater part of the metal in the web, and with but little in the top and bottom flange, was in common use; and even in the preparation of the building ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various



Words linked to "Girder" :   beam, I-beam



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