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  2. Steel frame - Wikipedia

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    The central "web" of the steel I-beam is often wider than a column web to resist the higher bending moments that occur in beams. Wide sheets of steel deck can be used to cover the top of the steel frame as a "form" or corrugated mold, below a thick layer of concrete and steel reinforcing bars. Another popular alternative is a floor of precast ...

  3. Birdcage - Wikipedia

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    A newer trend is cages made of solid stainless steel. Large parrot cages made of stainless steel are costly but will outlast a powder-coated cage by 5 to 6 times. The materials used to build the cages greatly affect the price. While small cages are relatively cheap, large parrot-sized cages can be more expensive than an aviary.

  4. Steel building - Wikipedia

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    Steel building on a farm in Shenandoah County, Virginia The Minor Basilica of San Sebastián (1891) in Manila, a Philippines National Heritage Landmark. [1]A steel building is a metal structure fabricated with steel for the internal support and for exterior cladding, as opposed to steel framed buildings which generally use other materials for floors, walls, and external envelope.

  5. Steel design - Wikipedia

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    The design and use of steel frames are commonly employed in the design of steel structures. More advanced structures include steel plates and shells. In structural engineering, a structure is a body or combination of pieces of the rigid bodies in space that form a fitness system for supporting loads and resisting moments.

  6. Deep foundation - Wikipedia

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    The male pile is the one where steel reinforcement cages are installed, though in some cases the female piles are also reinforced. [ citation needed ] Secant piled walls can either be true hard/hard, hard/intermediate (firm), or hard/soft, depending on design requirements.

  7. Cage - Wikipedia

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    Spherical cage containing watermelons in Russia. A cage is an enclosure often made of mesh, bars, or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something or someone.A cage can serve many purposes, including keeping an animal or person in captivity, capturing an animal or person, and displaying an animal at a zoo.

  8. Crinoline - Wikipedia

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    Steel cage crinolines were mass-produced in huge quantity, with factories across the Western world producing tens of thousands in a year. Alternative materials, such as whalebone, cane, gutta-percha, and even inflatable caoutchouc (natural rubber) were all used for hoops, although steel was the most popular. At its widest point, the crinoline ...

  9. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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    A steel cage or rack commonly used in auto industry Student apartments built out of shipping containers in Le Havre, France Transport truck of the Swiss Army with field hospital in container. Many types of shipping containers are reusable. Steel drums are frequently reconditioned and reused.