Sentence examples for platform frame from inspiring English sources

In platform frame constructions the task of resisting to the horizontal forces (wind, earthquake) is entirely left to the shear walls.

The aim of this paper is to provide a numerical simulation for giving a technical answer to some problems that a structural engineer has to solve when designing a timber building based of Platform Frame technology, i.e., composed of light-frame timber shear walls.

Create the platform frame.

This will complete the back of the platform frame.

Screw 4-foot by 8-foot (1200x2400 mm) 3/4-inch (18 mm) plywood onto the platform frame you just assembled.

Freed from the heavy timbers of the post-and-beam system, platform framing offers ease of construction.

In platform framing, each floor is framed separately, as contrasted with balloon framing, in which the studs (vertical members) extend the full height of the building.

These present-day "platform" frames are made of standard-dimension timbers, usually two or four centimetres (0.75 or 1.5 inch) thick, which are joined together by machine-made nails and other metal fasteners using hand tools.

The balloon-frame house with wood cladding, invented in Chicago in the 1840s, aided the rapid settlement of the western U.S. In North America, with its abundant softwood forests, the framed building enjoyed an extensive revival after World War II in the form of platform frames.

After calibration, outputs of tri-axial magnetometers are acquired along the ideally platform frame-orthogonal coordinate system and these enable calibration of magnetic gradient tensor system.

Table 3 The channel utilization under different platforms Frame length (Byte) Performance index FPGA NetFPGA 64 Channel 71%100%% utilization.