enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Primer (paint) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(paint)

    Primer reduces the number of paint coats needed for good coverage and even color. A thin layer of paint may still be permeable to water. Water can permeate into the wood and cause warping, mildew, or dry rot. Primer improves the waterproofing of the finish. [4] Primers are not used as part of a wood stain treatment because they obscure the wood ...

  3. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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

    In this type of construction, the vigas are the main structural members carrying the weight of the roof to the load-bearing exterior walls. The exposed beam-ends projecting from the outside of the wall are a defining characteristic of Pueblo architecture and of Spanish Colonial architecture in New Mexico, often replicated in modern Pueblo ...

  4. Glued laminated timber - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glued_laminated_timber

    The 2,010-square-metre (21,600 sq ft), 34-metre-high (110 ft) vesica piscis-shaped building formed the frame with a glued-laminated timber beam and steel-rod skeleton covered with a glass skin. Considering the conventional mode of construction with steel or reinforced concrete moment-frame, this glulam-and-steel combination case is regarded as ...

  5. Chromate conversion coating - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromate_conversion_coating

    The chromate coating process starts with a redox reaction between the hexavalent chromium and the metal. [2] In the case of aluminum, for example, Cr 6+ + Al 0 → Cr 3+ + Al 3+ The resulting trivalent cations react with hydroxide ions in water to form the corresponding hydroxides, or a solid solution of both hydroxides: Cr 3+ + 3 OH − → Cr ...

  6. Lead-based paint in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-based_paint_in_the...

    Until the early 1960s white lead (lead carbonate/lead sulphate) was added in substantial quantities as the main white pigment in some paint products intended for use as a primer or top coat over metal and wood, both internally and externally. Examples of where this type of paint may have been used are skirting boards, doors, door frames, stairs ...

  7. Flitch beam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flitch_beam

    A flitch beam (or flitched beam) is a compound beam used in the construction of houses, decks, and other primarily wood-frame structures. Typically, the flitch beam is made up of a vertical steel plate sandwiched between two wood beams, the three layers being held together with bolts. In that common form it is sometimes referenced as a steel ...

  8. Span (engineering) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_(engineering)

    In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam). Span is measured in the horizontal direction either between the faces of the supports (clear span) or between the centers of the bearing surfaces (effective span): [1] A span can be closed by a solid beam or by ...

  9. Prepainted metal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepainted_metal

    According to EN 13523-0, a prepainted metal (or coil coated metal) is a ‘metal on which a coating material (e.g. paint, film…) has been applied by coil coating’.When applied onto the metallic substrate, the coating material (in liquid, in paste or powder form) forms a film possessing protective, decorative and/or other specific properties.