Girder - A strong, wooden member spanning foundation walls designed to support joist ends.
Girt - Supports the second floor joist in two-story construction.
Girder - A large or principal beam used to support concentrated loads at isolated points along its length.
Gypsum Board - Wallboard made of gypsum, with a covering of paper.
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Girder or main "summer beam" of a floor: if supported on two storey posts and open below, also called a "bress" or "breast-summer". Often found at th...
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a. a beam, girder, or structural framework that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
b. (as modifier) a cantilever wing
2. (Engineering / Aeronautics) a wing or tailplane of an aircraft that has no external bracing or support ...
Lattice girderA girder with braced framework.LavatoriumIn an abbey or monastery, a washing place adjacent to the refectory or dining hall.
Sommer or Summer - girder or main "summer beam" of a floor: if supported on two storey posts and open below, also called a "bress" or "breast-summer".
Bottom Chord - The lowest member of truss or girder
Bottom Plate - A member along the bottom of a framed partition that spreads the loads from the studs to the supporting floor ...
The principal horizontal members of a roof, often attached to girders or a main beam which would be larger.
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Joist
Wood framing used to support floor and ceiling loads, and supported in turn by larger beams, girders, or bearing walls; usually set 16" apart on center, carefully chosen to support all "live" and "dead" loads.
joist One of a series of parallel timber beams used to support floor and ceiling loads, and supported in turn by larger beams, girders, or bearing walls; the widest dimension is vertically oriented.
After years of investigations, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that the intense heat on the floor beams and girders weakened a critical support column in WTC Building 7.
A structural member that caries a load. Beams are usually placed horizontally and care a vertical load where the weight is transferred to walls, girders or columns.
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Kahn infused his designs with a transcendent monumentality recalling Roman classicism, as in his Kimbell Art Museum (1972), located in Fort Worth, Texas, where tunnel vaults are transformed into light-modulating girders.
Many of the more important government buildings are built in the style of Omani palaces with external verandas and carved wooden doors - the important addition of steel girders enabling larger spaces to be covered without support.
 See also: Frame, Floor, Member, Architecture, Beam
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