Sentence examples for frames of steel from inspiring English sources

Earlier skyscrapers were supported by complex frames of steel or concrete columns and beams.

Continuous frames of steel or reinforced concrete fall between these extremes in their seismic response, and they can be designed to survive with relatively little damage.

In this paper attention is focused on the uprights, i.e. vertical elements of the skeleton frames of steel storage rack systems.

The AISC Seismic Design Provisions now include capacity design requirements for steel plate shear walls, which consist of thin web plates that infill frames of steel beams, denoted horizontal boundary elements (HBEs), and columns, denoted vertical boundary elements (VBEs).

Where the Center Theatre once stood there rises a new frame of steel.

is a complicated "space frame" of steel and glass, and many tetrahedrons.

Behind a chain-link fence, a tower crane rose up beside an immense frame of steel beams.

Its translucent fabric skin is stretched over a structural frame of steel beams and tension cables that resembles scaffolding.

At Westchester Avenue the station projects out over the tracks, and so floats on a frame of steel.

By E. B. White and Murdock Pemberton The New Yorker, April 16 , 1955P. 29 Where the Center Theatre once stood there rises a new frame of steel.

Concrete block walls with brick facing and punched openings (discrete windows entirely surrounded by the facing material) spanned by concealed steel lintels can be used for exterior bearing walls where the interior is a skeleton frame of steel or timber.