Little encyclopedia too Supporting beam

• Column
  Columns are frequently used to support beam s or arch es on which ... decorative or triumphant feature but need not be supporting any structure e.g. ...
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• Gantry crane
  a trolley and can move horizontally on a rail or pair of rails fitted under a beam. has the ends of the supporting beam resting on wheels ...
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• Odd sympathy
  when mounted together on the same beam. Huygens , the inventor of the pendulum ... chronicled the nature of the forces at work on the supporting beam. ...
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• Beam bridge
  Beam bridge s are the simplest kind of bridge today. ... Like most bridges that are characterized by how they are supported, beam bridges ...
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• Beam lead technology
  Beam Lead Technology is the name given to the structure and method of micro- ... and leaving them with self-supporting beam leads or internal ...
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• Early 18th century Whig plots
  In St. Paul’s Cathedral , loose screws were discovered in the building’s supporting beams above the seating area for the Queen. ...
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• Berlin Hauptbahnhof
  On 18 January 2007, two supporting beams of the structural frame tore loose during European windstorm Kyrill , one of them dropping down ...
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• Lewis F. Powell, Jr. United States Courthouse
  The structural system employed groin vaults to support upper floors, with cast-iron columns supporting beams and girders. The 1887-89 ...
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• Estádio Municipal de Aveiro
  intentional use of different colours is also reflected in the most detailed aspects, from the entrance gates, to the pillars and supporting beams. ...
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• DB Class 218
  locomotive via transverse beams attached to the main longitudinal supporting beams, the superstructure is made from sheet steel, forming a shell. ...
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• Geomag
  The balls allow bars to spin and shift freely, so the structure either needs extra supporting beams or panels to hold its shape. ...
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• Hauenstein railway line
  1857, a fire spread from a forge at the top of one of the shafts in to the tunnel and set alight its lining boards and their supporting beams. ...
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• Rockridge Secondary School
  With a concrete superstructure and wood roof and supporting beams, the school resembles a ski lodge and fits in with west coast ...
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• Raffia palm
  In their local environments, they are used for ropes, sticks and supporting beams, and various roof coverings are made out of its fibrous ...
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• Varsity Gymnasium
  It had hydraulic stages, seven 172 | ft | m | sing on supporting beams, physiological laboratories and 8 ticket gates In addition to the ...
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• Logogram
  liáng), where the phonetic 梁 liáng indicates the pronunciation of the character and the radical 木 ("wood") its meaning of "supporting beam". ...
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• Indefatigable class battlecruiser
  (KNC The supporting beams for the turret roofs were reinforced over those of the Invincibles based on lessons learned in firing trials ...
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• List of Rob Zombie characters
  He was presumed dead when he swung his axe and destroyed a supporting beam, being crushed by the falling debris, yet he was seen standing ...
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• Laitakari daybeacon
  The top structure is resting on top of supporting wooden beams wedged in to the gravel. The structure survived the Crimean War , and is ...
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• Girder
  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 ...
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• Kindu rail accident
  When the train was crossing over a bridge, the beams supporting the bridge swept people and goods off the train and into the river below ...
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• Templon
  It is usually composed of carved wood or marble colonnettes supporting an architrave (a beam resting on top of columns). Three doors, a ...
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• Cantilever (redirect from Cantilever beam)
  A cantilever is a beam supported on only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and shear ...
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• Strongback
  A strongback is a beam or girder which acts as a secondary support member to existing structure. A strongback in a staircase is usually ...
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• Bearer
  Beam (structure), a bearer, an alternative term for a beam, runs between columns or posts, supporting joists , truss es, or rafters , et ...
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• Bending (section Bending of beams)
  longer than the width and the thickness, the element is called a beam . ... A large diameter, but thin-walled, short tube supported at its ...
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• Rood screen (redirect from Rood-beam)
  strainer arch supporting a rood, placed in front of the pulpitum and organ. ... rested on a substantial transverse beam called the "rood beam" or ...
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• Bridge (section Beam bridges)
  Beam bridges are horizontal beams supported at each end by piers. The earliest beam bridges were simple logs that sat across streams and ...
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• Good Hope Centre
  hall comprising an arch with tie-beam on each of the four vertical facades and two diagonal arches supporting two intersecting barrel-like ...
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• San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
  date August 2008 It was also necessary to further reinforce each beam supporting the upper deck throughout the entire span, modifications ...
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• Jettying (redirect from Dragon beam)
  the cantilever ed beams supporting the upper floors can easily be seen. ... which a horizontal beam, the jetty bressummer, supports the wall ...
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• Briare aqueduct
  These piers support a single steel beam in turn supporting a steel channel which contains more than 13,000 tonnes of water, 2.2 meters ...
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• Church of the Holy Cross, Skatin
  In some places where the original wood beams supporting the church were rotted, the ends of the beams were trimmed, and new wood inserted ...
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• Aston Somerville
  Near the top of each pier supporting the chancel arch may be seen the blocked holes that once received a beam supporting the rood-loft. ...
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• His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
  considered that the proximity of the supporting pillars to the road ... which was not supported by a beam in accordance with the building plans. ...
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• Goring and Streatley Bridge
  The bridge consists of timber struts supporting a metal roadway. ... A bridge was first built here in 1837 being a flat timber bridge of beams ...
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• Joseph F. Glidden House
  The result is a loft which is an entirely open space save for some pole and beam construction supporting the laminated beams, which act as ...
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• Tarah Paige
  She has played minor and supporting roles in various television ... As a gymnast, she won the bronze medal on the balance beam at 2001 ...
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• Space Island Project
  alone commercial space infrastructure supporting manned business activities in Low ... panel satellites and then beam this energy to receiving ...
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• Composite construction
  One common example involves steel beams supporting concrete floor slabs If the beam is not connected firmly to the slab, then the slab ...
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• Nemi ships
  stern and prow buildings their existence is indicated by the shorter spacing of the decks supporting cross beams and distribution of ballast. ...
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• Early thermal weapons
  generally be supported by wooden beams and posts Once ... these would burn the supporting props, causing the ... Defenders might sometimes dig ...
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• 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing
  A photo showed that three columns supporting a beam connected to the Mosque's Minarettes at either side of the structure was all that ...
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• The Accidental Spy
  Buck makes his escape and frees Yong, winding the winch cable of a crane all around the supporting wooden beams of the building and ...
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• Radiation therapy (redirect from Cobalt-beam therapy)
  which the profile of each radiation beam is shaped to fit the profile ... patient may need painkillers and nutritional support/food supplements. ...
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• HMNZS Canterbury (F421)
  HMNZS Canterbury (F421) was one of two broad beam Leander class frigate s ... undertaking operations like supporting UN sanctions against Iraq ...
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• Euler–Bernoulli beam equation
  Euler-Bernoulli beam theory (also known as Engineer's beam theory, Classical beam ... The boundary conditions usually model supports, but they ...
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• Oscilloscope (redirect from Dual beam oscilloscope)
  (which time-shared a single electron beam, thus losing about 50% of ... two supporting moving coils on each side of it, suspended in an oil bath. ...
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• List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED technology (redirect from Deuterion Beam)
  Nearly all mobile suit shields have anti-beam coating applied to the ... Quantum computers in the Cosmic Era capable of supporting highly ...
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• Dougong
  provide increased support for the weight of the horizontal beams that ... invention of new wooden components that aided dougong in supporting the roof. ...
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• Charles Jones (architect)
  It features wall-posts supporting moulded hammer-beams, and curved braces. The king post are hidden above the ceiling, which is on the ...
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• Woodside Plaza
  the lifts , stairs and service risers The office floors are formed from post-tensioned band beams supporting conventional reinforced slabs. ...
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• Architecture of ancient Sri Lanka
  The weight was taken by a ring beam supported on the inner row of ... Rock faces were used as supporting walls for buildings. The platform ...
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• Cornish engine (redirect from Cornish beam engine)
  showing the beams of the pumping engine emerging from the supporting wall ... It is a form of beam engine that uses steam at a higher pressure ...
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• Robert Lawson (architect)
  Inside, instead of the stone vaulted ceiling of a Norman cathedral, there are hammer beams supporting a ceiling of pitched wood and a ...
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• Trinity Episcopal Church (Detroit, Michigan)
  Inside the sanctuary, ten stone angels supporting the nave beams face inward; several windows contain stained glass, including a Tiffany ...
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• Sinnott Memorial Observation Station
  The building is constructed of heavy, native stone and concrete with log beams supporting the roof. The structure’s footprint is somewhat ...
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• Bara Imambara
  At 50 by 16 meters and over 15 meters tall, it has no beams supporting the ceiling, and is one of the largest such arched constructions in ...
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• Robert Edge Parkway
  The road required "nearly 200 workers, 2 million pounds of steel in the bridge, 8,000 linear feet of concrete beams supporting the bridge ...
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• Burton, Wiltshire
  This revealed that one of the beams supporting the pew platform was very old, hand carved and part painted - possibly part of the rood ...
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• Henry Whatley Tyler
  The former involved failure of cast iron beams supporting the track in a wooden bridge, through which a coal train fell, killing the ...
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• 5th Avenue Theatre
  wrapped in plaster rising to a timbered roof structure of decoratively painted beams supporting a canopy of bamboo, also imitated in plaster. ...
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• Verbindungsbahn (Stuttgart)
  Once both the sleeves and beams were in place, hydraulic presses were used to put pressure onto this supporting structure, until the ...
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• 2011 Rugby World Cup
  The old stands have been demolished and the supporting pillars and beams have been installed. Work is now starting on the first floor of ...
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• Electron beam lithography
  Electron beam lithography (often abbreviated as e-beam lithography) is the practice ... This work has been supported by SEMATECH and start-up ...
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• Bottom trawling (section Beam trawling)
  and that it had a beam ten feet long, at the end of which were two ... Tuvalu in supporting an interim bottom trawling ban at the United Nations. ...
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• Geumsansa
  Mireukjeon is constructed using a "multi-beam style" where the "eaves beams" are not only placed above the pillars supporting the eaves, ...
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• BEAM robotics (redirect from B.E.A.M)
  The word "beam" in BEAM robotics is an acronym for B iology , E lectronics , A ... Publications : com Book support website) See also ...
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• Molecular beam epitaxy
  Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), is one of several methods of depositing single ... the growing film and the supporting crystal, elastic energy ...
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• Scottish Parliament Building
  a structure of laminated oak beams joined with a total of 112 ... debating chamber to span over 30 metres (100 ft) without any supporting columns. ...
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• Solar sail (section Beam propelled)
  Beam propelled ... a sail using reflective panels of thin aluminium film (30 to 100 nanometre s thick) supported by a purely tensile structure. ...
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• Bianzhong
  The ends and intersection of each pair of beams are fitted with decorated bronze caps and front part of the brackets supporting the ...
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• List of Eliminator obstacles (section Balance Beams)
  Balance Beams US - Original ... Holding onto the medicine balls or the ropes supporting them resulted in 25 points being deducted from the ...
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• Marine steam engine (section Walking beam)
  The walking beam, also known as an "overhead beam" or simply "beam", ... although the supports on which the beam rested were often built of wood. ...
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• Beam (structure)
  A beam is a structural element that is capable of withstanding load primarily by ... that are imposed on the beam support) include the "moment ...
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• Stage lighting instrument (section Beam projector)
  Most instruments are suspended or supported by a "U" shaped yoke, ... The shape of the beam is round but with the use of the shutters one can ...
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• Tricked (section Supporting characters)
  Ray Beam and Steve are the only characters who narrate their stories. ... Lead characters ... Supporting characters : Marty Gayce, Ray Beam's manager. ...
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• Lui Seng Chun
  reinforced concrete shallow pad foundations supporting granite columns with reinforced concrete beams, floors and walls Its architecture ...
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• MonoMetro
  The junction between the butterfly arms and supporting beams is designed to allow for the principle degree of freedom of the beam, ...
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• Strategic Defense Initiative (section Neutral Particle Beam)
  funding which indirectly supports other research work by top ... Neutral Particle Beam: In July 1989, the Beam Experiments Aboard a Rocket (BEAR ...
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• Coraopolis Bridge
  After supporting the bridge under the floor beams, they disassembled the top chord and stabilized each panel point on the trusses. ...
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• Inertial confinement fusion
  of the target using high-energy beams of laser light , electron s or ... nuclear stewardship program , supporting LLNLs traditional bomb-making role. ...
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• Joist
  A joist, in architecture and engineering , is one of the horizontal supporting members that run from wall to wall, wall to beam, or beam ...
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• John Beames
  John Beames (21 June 1837 – May 1902) was a civil servant in British India and an ... His support of the cause of Oriya was timely. ...
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• List of ancient roofs
  frame of beams of the main nave is largely self-supporting, since the forces are carried along the beams rather than acting vertically on them. ...
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• Sandwich theory
  Linear Sandwich theory describes the behaviour of a beam which consists of three ... intermediate supports or the bending stiffness of the cover sheets. ...
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• Motorcycle frame (section Beam)
  Beam: Twin beams join headstock to swingarm pivot in as straight and short a ... Supports structural load using the external skin of the frame. ...
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• Jim Beam
  Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey . ... In June, 2008, Jim Beam launched the company’s first social media press release in support of the ...
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• Venus Smiles
  The story ends when the narrator and supporting characters discover the unusual vibrations coming from the beams, and realise with horror ...
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• List of Eureka Seven characters (section Charles Beams)
  asserts that the software is fully capable of supporting the changes. ... Charles Beams: Voiced by: Jūrōta Kosugi (Japanese), Patrick Seitz ...
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• Diffraction (section Propagation of a laser beam)
  For example, the expanding profile of a laser beam, the beam shape ... 1815 and 1818 and thereby gave great support to the wave theory of light ...
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• Grainger Stadium
  A majority of the supporting structure is brick and steel. Steel beams do cause some partially obstructed views. The roof is wooden, as is ...
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• Schenkerian analysis
  Open and closed noteheads, beams, and flags, which show rhythm in ... are used for notes of the fundamental line and their supporting bass notes. ...
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• I-beam
  I-beams (also known as H-beams, W-beams (for "wide flange"), rolled steel joist ... by concentrated loads, such as at the beam's point of support ...
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• Daytime running lamp (section low beam headlights)
  Dimmed high beam headlights allow for operation as daylight running ... comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or ...
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• Universal Century technology (section Beam smart gun)
  before the region can support normal electromagnetic communication again. ... Beam smart gun: the beam smart gun is designed to bend the output ...
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• Seismic retrofit (section Beam-column joint connections)
  reinforcement to any supporting wall, or to add deep caissons adjacent to the edge at each end and connect them with a supporting beam under the bridge. ...
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• Waveguide (electromagnetism)
  electron beam systems) ... The waveguide structure has the capability of confining and supporting the energy of an electromagnetic wave to a ...
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• Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
  There would also be modifications to the lattice beams as is now ... to a single-towered, self-supporting suspension span between the viaducts. ...
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• Tractor beam
  A tractor beam is a hypothetical device with the ability to attract one object to ... enemy ships used "repellor beams" for support and propulsion ...
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