Sentence examples for a timber beam from inspiring English sources

He swung the axe at a timber beam supporting what was left of the roof.

The mayor of the town of Oesdorf in Schleswig-Holstein was beaten unconscious with a timber beam last September and has since retired from office.

In this way a timber beam of rectangular section may have steel plates bolted to its sides or to its top and bottom surfaces.

Therefore, the paper presents an experimental study performed on composite beam test samples composed of a concrete plate connected to a timber beam with dowel-type fasteners.

The current bridge is the third at the same site; in 1845 "Prescott's Crossing" was built as a timber beam bridge, 1860 saw it replaced with a four span, trussed timber bridge and 5 December 1885 with a 126 feet long, 34 feet wide truss arch bridge.

A stochastic hierarchical model of a glued laminated timber beam loaded in bending is formulated in this paper.

This system can also provide points of connection for other elements like a balcony or a new type of timber beam that can elaborate the dynamic capabilities of this system.

The comparisons show the efficiency of the simple composite systems of connections tested using the reinforcing steel bars alone or combined with a notch connection in the timber beam.

The second connection type is formed by a steel T-stub slotted into the timber beam and connected to it by means of transverse bolts.

The proposed method is validated on experimental and numerical models of a timber composite beam structure and a timber-concrete composite flooring system.

A possible solution lies in replacing the classic timber planks with a concrete slab and in the corresponding strengthening of the timber beam in the tensile zone.