Sentence examples for king post from inspiring English sources
noun
A central vertical supporting post used in architecture and bridge as well as in aircraft and ship design.
We spread out the wings, inserted riblike poles, straightened the king post and tightened dangling cables.
Infractions included adding a Kevlar bag of lead tailings to the forward king post and extending the main king post without the consent of the measurement committee, the jury said.
One of them held a hacksaw blade at a sailor's throat while others tied him to a king post.
The king post to tie beam node configuration was found to influence the ultimate load value and the overall stiffness of the structure without changing the original mode of collapse.
If the span of a roof be large, a ridge piece (columen) is laid on top of the king post (columna, whence is derived the word column), and a tye beam (transtrum) and struts (capreoli) will be necessary.
The tendency of Ellison's organizations to play close to, and sometimes beyond, the edge of the rules emerged again in the run-up to the America's Cup finals when a Kevlar bag full of lead shot was found hidden in a king post on the underside of a 45-foot catamaran Oracle raced in regattas before switching to the 72-footers.
It is shallow pitched with massive, richly decorated tie beams and short king posts.
The roof of the nave is tall and steeply pitched, with substantial king posts and tie-beams.
The Hillsgrove bridge has load-bearing Burr arches sandwiching multiple vertical king posts on each side, for strength and rigidity.
The Sonestown bridge is a Burr arch truss type, with a load-bearing arch sandwiching multiple vertical king posts, for strength and rigidity.
A Burr arch truss consists of a load-bearing arch sandwiching multiple king posts, resulting in stronger and more rigid structure than one made of either element alone.
