girder

Dictionary: gird·er (gûr'dər) pronunciation

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A beam, as of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or bridge.

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In building construction, a large main supporting beam, commonly of steel or reinforced concrete, that carries a heavy transverse (crosswise) load. In a floor system, beams and joists transfer their loads to the girders, which in turn frame into the columns.

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A large or principal beam of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber; used to support concentrated loads at isolated points along its length.

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For the DC Comics character with this name, see Girder (comics).

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The ceiling of Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, was constructed of large trusses built of riveted girders.

A girder is a support beam used in construction. Girders often have an I beam cross section for strength, but may also have a box shape, Z shape or other forms. Girder is the term used to denote the main horizontal support of a structure which supports smaller beams. A girder is commonly used many times in the building of bridges, and planes.

The Warren type girder combines strength with economy of materials and can therefore be relatively light. Patented in 1848 by its designers James Warren and Willoughby Theobald Monzani, its structure consists of longitudinal members joined only by angled cross-members, forming alternately inverted equilateral triangle-shaped spaces along its length, ensuring that no individual strut, beam, or tie is subject to bending or torsional straining forces, but only to tension or compression. It is an improvement over the Neville truss which uses a spacing configuration of isosceles triangles.

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Girder (comics) is the name of a DC Comics supervillain.
Bender from the TV show Futurama was made to be a girder bending robot.
Girders are popular tools in the Worms computer and video game series.
Irn-Bru advertisements often claim that their product is made from girders.

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