A
girder is a large, strong beam or long piece of metal or concrete used in construction to support or strengthen structures, like bridges or buildings. It provides stability and helps distribute the weight evenly.
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The worrying thing about the HSE report is that it has asked local authorities to complete questionnaires exclusively regarding system - built schools with asbestos cladding on
steel girders of a similar design to CLASP, whereas the ATaC report was not exclusive to building type and highlighted problems within various school building types.
Though largely overlooked by nutrition experts, strontium plays a critical role in making bones the steel
girders of the body, and adding it to your supplement regimen may make you feel unbreakable.
Tappan Zee Constructors (TZC) is scheduled to continue installing steel
girders for the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge over River Road at the Rockland landing.
MOFs are porous crystals that under a microscope look a bit like a building under construction — lots of
girders with space in between.
If a pile of steel
girders in the shape of a Star of David were found and widely publicized, it probably would be in the museum too.
Yet many institutions house good, big works, by good, big artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden (whose work here, Beam Drop, 1984/2009, 70 rust -
red girders protruding messily upright from high ground overlooking a soaring vista, is particularly affecting).
We stood beside its fractured
metal girder as you snapped our pictures.
Later structures made of bold steel elements painted black are like answers to Franz Kline's paintings, constructions of heavy black marks,
like girders silhouetted in a heat haze.
Whether it's an exploding crate or a falling
girder from above, all are lethal and, if timed right, will stop you dead in your tracks.
Built in the early 19th century over previous constructions, the shrine was in danger of collapse and barely held together by
iron girders added decades later.
The I Lift NY super crane last Thursday installed the project's final massive steel blue
girder assembly, bringing the eastbound span of the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge one step...
Donkey Kong's special attack has barrels and steel
girders falling from the sky, referencing the character's original arcade game.
The example specifically used is «
girders as throwing stars.»
One such cross takes the form of wooden
girders supporting the floor - to - ceiling window in Living Room (2017); it is one of a family of linear elements that rhyme with the photographs» dark wood frames.
By Sean Ryan An Illinois steel company is suspended from Wisconsin work after delivering weak
bridge girders to a state Department of Transportation project in Wausau.
Boss fights, like trying to bounce sticks of dynamite off walls and slide them down
collapsed girders into the open turret of a German tank, can also leave little room for error.
Yet there is a strange and terrible beauty in the opera's imagery: the balletic movements of the construction workers as they tiptoe over the partially built Hindenburg; the
twisted girders of the crumpled zeppelin; palm trees on Bikini staggering sideways in the yellow atomic wind; and a robot named Kismet singing poignantly of a garden created by God.
New research led by WMG, at the University of Warwick has found an effective approach to replacing graphite in the anodes of lithium - ion batteries using silicon, by reinforcing the anode's structure with
graphene girders.
Players use the touch screen to guide a Mini Toy to the goal door in each stage by
moving girders and changing the toy's direction to make sure it avoids enemies, spikes, Thwomps, and any other perils that could put a stop to the march of the Minis.
When it's raining, you hear the rain pour, in the forest the wind blows, in water you splash and as you trek
across girders you hear the sound of clunky metal.
Just imagine the construction of a bridge, Metal Gear Solid 1, 2 and 3 are all
supportive girders for the overall construction.
Fourteen rhythmically chanting men move a large iron
girder into place by a tug - of - war... Out for party at Breach Candy club...
The
large girder in the worship space and the fragile zigzag wall behind the stage allow for easy expansion as the church grows.
While Caro
welded girders of industrial steel, his wife sought inspiration from the playful collages and canvases of Matisse and Miró.
Every crime from purse - snatching to multi-million-dollar payoffs is recorded in this mess of out - of - date facades, hideous bunkerlike new buildings,
exposed girders and disintegrating brick.
Contemporary sculptors interested in working with physical materials, as Maychack is, often take as their source material the recesses and underpinnings of architectural space, whether it is the moldings of a room (see Francis Cape), the
sprayed girders of an underpass (Karlis Rekevics), or the negative spaces in and about actual objects (Rachel Whiteread).
In his home, two concrete Inverset panels (which once formed part of a temporary ramp leading to Boston's Tobin Bridge) hang in the rafters while a 27 - inch - wide
painted girder (that once helped support slurry walls along Storrow Drive) now helps brace the home's 69,000 - pound roof.
In the trailer, a wide variety of puzzle types are shown, each one building upon that concept in different ways: filling in gaps on surfaces with shaped tiles, rotating sections of cubic levels so special tiles will fit with the correct orientation, and even
placing girder - like construction across a structure's vertices.
«Early One Morning» is among the first in which the industrial associations of rough and
massive girders were largely eliminated in favour of an effect of weightlessness.
The Wraith B120, with its carbon fiber and aircraft - grade aluminum chassis and
oversize girder - shaped fork, clocks a top speed of 150 miles per hour.
Broad piers, mostly lightweight sheathing
around girders, stand in for the massive masonry pilasters that in an earlier age would support the clerestory.
He had tapered off his heavy training to a series of light isometrics in the York Barbell Company gym, in which he would tug and push against fixed equipment until he
bent girders and generally twisted everything out of shape.
The 135 - foot -
long girders will allow TZC to complete the concrete roadway and connect the eastbound span to the New York State Thruway in the coming weeks.
Additionally, 90 percent of support structures on the project are installed, including the fabrication and placement of 126 steel
girders sections.
This includes a more extensive look at plate -
girder beams and the potential to completely eliminate the need to jack the bridge as well as to reduce lane closures.
Ill - fated bridge of the Silv» ry Tay, I must now conclude my lay By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay, That your
central girders would not have given way, At least many sensible men do say, Had they been supported on each side with buttresses, At least many sensible men confesses, For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed.
The scientists then used these
ropelike girders to form the frame of three - dimensional octahedrons, «stapling» the linear DNA chains together with hundreds of short complementary DNA strands.
The American Bertolozzi says banging different sized mallets ~ drumsticks and a lambs wool covered log against the tower's
girders ~ railings and panels creates sounds similar to that of marimbas ~ Indonesian gamelan gongs and metallic drums.
The constant thread running throughout «The Last Shift» is the brazen scrappers who come with blowtorches to
disassemble girders and I - beams and massive pipes to be hauled away in shabby trucks for converting to quick cash.
Ariel offers a traditional upside down Öhlins fork setup, but to be truly unique on the road, the Ariel Ace has an available
custom girder suspension setup with an Öhlins TTX at its core.
[38] After drying, an additional wax - based compound was sprayed
inside girders, rocker panels, fenders, and other hidden areas in the car bodies.
They came from a bridgeworks on the Mississippi, pulling loads of rivet -
punched girders and spandrel beams.
The two - week bake of August sun beginning to mask its humiliation, blending the old man's emission to a color like that of
rusted girder.
It had been placed under a nearby railway car transporting an eighty -
ton girder.