Girder is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GIRDER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large beam, esp. one made of steel, used in the construction of bridges, buildings, etc.
• a large iron or steel beam or compound structure used for building bridges and the framework of large buildings
• large metal beam
• One who girds; a satirist.
• One who, or that which, girds.
• A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.
• a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a horizontal support

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Words that contain GIRDER

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How to use GIRDER in a sentence

• With hand jacks they lifted the girders and piled up sleepers, one by one beneath, until the girder was lifted to rail level again.
• Now any engineer can tell you that the only way to destroy a bridge is to cut the girder.
• A rope was attached to a girder with the other end tied in a noose around his neck.
• Below, in the debris of the superstructure, the up-stream girder lay upon the down-stream one.
• Nowadays, of course, no one would dream of anything but an iron girder bridge in such a position.
• It was as strong as a steel girder, and I think it would have cut steel.
• Masonry bridges are preferable in appearance to any others, and metal arch bridges are less objectionable than most forms of girder.
• So far as superstructure is concerned, more material must be used than for an arch or chain, for the girder is in a sense a combination of arch and chain.
• A fundamental difference in girder bridges arises from the mode of support.
• As railway loads increased and greater spans were demanded, the Howe truss was stiffened by timber arches on each side of each girder.
• It will be seen that the girder directly rests on a cylindrical pin or rocker so placed as to distribute the load uniformly to all the rollers.
• There was an idea of using suspension chains combined with a girder, and in fact the tower piers were built so as to accommodate chains.
• It would be economical, therefore, to make the girder very deep.
• This, however, involves a much heavier web, and therefore for any type of girder there must be a ratio of depth to span which is most economical.
• It is formed by a crescent-shaped arch, continued on one side by four, on the other side by two lattice girder spans, on iron piers.
• The Victoria Falls bridge over the Zambezi, designed by Sir Douglas Fox, and completed in 1905, is a combination of girder and arch having a total length of 650 ft.
• In the earlier girder bridges the live load was taken to be equivalent to a uniform load of 1 ton per foot run for each line of way.
• In addition, an allowance is made for pressure on the leeward girder according to a scale.
• The web of a girder must resist the maximum shear, and, with a travelling load like a railway train, this is greater for partial than for complete loading.
• Generally a girder supports both a dead and a live load.
• Comparing the figures it will be seen that over a distance x near the middle of the girder the shear changes sign, according as the load advances from the left or the right.
• The bracing bars, therefore, for this part of the girder must be adapted to resist either tension or thrust.
• With short bridges it is best to draw the curve of maximum bending moments for some assumed typical set of loads in the way just described, and to design the girder accordingly.
• Repeating the process for other positions, we get the influence line AGHB, for the shear at C due to unit load anywhere on the girder.
• Clearly, the distribution of the load by the rail girder considerably alters the distribution of shear due to a load in the bay in which the section considered lies.
• The cost of the main girders for one span will vary nearly as the square of the span for any given type of girder and intensity of live load.
• This buttress supports a heavy girder, thus admitting of the use of two tiers of floor beams to span the whole length of the room.
• The supporting girder in this instance is embedded in the wall and coated over with adobe, obscuring the construction.
• Section of a steel girder for dome covering the 100-inch telescope, on its way up Mount Wilson 8.
• The Boyne was bridged, and everything that has since happened has but added a new stay or girder to the strength of the bridge.
• Across these two limbs, at about seven feet out, we laid our first girder, nailing it securely in place.
• Then to the main trunk we nailed the second girder on a level with the first.

Similar words containing GIRD without suffix er

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