enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Garage door - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_door

   Sectional-type steel with exterior cladding overhead garage doors in the style of old carriage house doors. A common material for a new garage door is a steel sheet formed or stamped to look like a raised panel wooden door. Steel doors are available in uninsulated, insulated, and a three-layer door, also known as a sandwich-style door.

3. Jamb - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamb

   A jamb (from French jambe 'leg'), [1] in architecture, is the side-post or lining of a doorway or other aperture. The jambs of a window outside the frame are called reveals . Small shafts to doors and windows with caps and bases are called jamb-shafts ; when in the inside arris of the jamb of a window, they are sometimes called scoinsons .

4. Door - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door

   The hinge of the operating door is next to the adjacent fixed door and the latch is located at the wall opening jamb rather than between the two doors or with the use of an espagnolette bolt. A Lev door or convection door is an internal floor-to-ceiling (full height) door, consisting of a standard door leaf and an upper leaf in place of the ...

5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

   A pillar boutant is a large chain or jamb of stone, made to support a wall, terrace, or vault. The word is French, and comes from the verb bouter, "to butt" or "abut". [4] Bracket (see also corbel) A weight-bearing member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall. Bressummer

6. Romanesque architecture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture

   Wide doorways are usually surmounted by a semi-circular arch, except where a door with a lintel is set into a large arched recess and surmounted by a semi-circular "lunette" with decorative carving. [26] These doors sometimes have a carved central jamb. Narrow doors and small windows might be surmounted by a solid stone lintel.

7. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain_wall_(architecture)

   These are barriers between exterior metal and interior metal, usually made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). These breaks provide a significant decrease in the thermal conductivity of the curtain wall. However, since the thermal break interrupts the aluminum mullion, the overall moment of inertia of the mullion is reduced and must be accounted for ...