"structural framework" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is typically used to describe the underlying structure on which something is built. For example, "The project was successful due to its strong structural framework."
This work provides a comprehensive structural framework within which most defective human aaRSs have been structurally analyzed.
Perovskites have a stable structural framework, despite the movement of active ions into and out of the structure.
He disciplined its surging growth forms, neatly defining the area of design within a strict structural framework.
Timber framing, wooden structural framework that forms the interior and exterior walls of half-timber work.
Work resumed in 2003, and the structural framework was completed in 2007.
The structural framework of its departures and retail hall -- so vast that Union Square Park could fit under the gently bowed roof -- was topped off three weeks later.
In other words, about one-third of the Freedom Tower will be more of a structural framework than a habitable building.
So the tower's structural framework would have to be retrofitted to handle the new loads, adding enormously to a project's cost with relatively little yield.
It was the morning after a recital by the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, and crews had begun dismantling the structural framework that held up the floor of the main hall for 110 years.
Last week, Mr. Garvin said planners were considering including on the site several low-rise buildings whose structural framework would allow them to be expanded upward as the need for more office space developed.
(Plans for the site of the former World Trade Center in Manhattan call for an even taller building, although some argue it may not qualify as tallest because part of it will be more structural framework than habitable building).
