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A bent in American English is a transverse rigid frame (or similar structures such as three-hinged arches).Historically, bents were a common way of making a timber frame; they are still often used for such, and are also seen in small steel-frame buildings, where the term portal frame is more commonly used.
A portal frame steel building under construction. Portal frame is a construction technique where vertical supports are connected to horizontal beams or trusses via fixed joints with designed-in moment-resisting capacity. [1] The result is wide spans and open floors. Portal frame structures can be constructed using a variety of materials and ...
It is also commonly used to determine the amount of wind on the top of the structure. A Scandinavian tradition of hoisting a pine tree to the top of framed out buildings had a more functional purpose: when the pine needles fell off, the builders knew the wood frame below had cured/dried out so they could enclose the building. [2]
The building was a steel-frame design, and the collapse was the first known example of the total progressive collapse of a steel-framed building. [3] On May 16, 1968, the 22-story Ronan Point apartment tower in West Ham, London suffered a fatal collapse of one of its corners because of a natural-gas explosion, which destroyed a load-bearing ...
I bought a framed poster on eBay for $40 (including shipping) but the seller -- apparently the dumbest person in the world -- decided that the best way to ship framed art was to wrap it in saran ...
A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...
A portal is an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, especially a grand entrance to an important structure. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] Doors, metal gates , or portcullis in the opening can be used to control entry or exit.
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