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noun
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
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On moonless nights, clupeid schools can be attracted to beams from strong lights and congregate near the surface a behavioral pattern often exploited by fishermen.
They tore up the asphalt, tore down the interior walls and took out every window and door -- effectively reducing the house to beams and clapboard.
There is no mystery to adding and securing iron rods in concrete, securing floors to beams, boosting the resilience of columns, monitoring the size of gravel mixed with cement.
He went on, "The novel is filled with the sounds of people's voices, with sirens, loudspeakers, bullhorns, kitchen appliances, with radio and TV transmissions, with references to beams, rays, sound waves, etc.... Jack, listening to people talk on the telephone and musing on his own death, thinks 'all sounds, all souls.' (Page 369).
An early example is the TWA Hangar (1956) at Kansas City, Missouri, which shelters large aircraft under a double cantilever roof made of semicylindrical shells that reach out 48 meters (160 feet); deflection is reduced and the shells kept in compression by cables that run down from central shear walls to beams in the valleys between the shells.
Instead, there he was on Friday perched 212 feet above the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland with all manner of ropes and bungee cords and carabiners hanging from his blue jumpsuit or affixed to beams and railroad ties, looking like a guy auditioning as a supporting player in a Spider-Man movie.
It competes with everything from old-school door "clickers" to beams mounted above the doors or even video-enabled solutions.
The columns are connected to beams and the slab and the base plate by welding.
These limits correspond to beams and columns with conforming transverse reinforcement.
increasing repairability, by limiting damage to beams and replaceable items only.
The analysis is extended to beams with bolted end connections to determine their rotational stiffnesses.
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