enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Steel frame - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_frame

    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. Steel building - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_building

    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.

  4. William Le Baron Jenney - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Le_Baron_Jenney

    Jenney was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on September 25, 1832, the son of William Proctor Jenney and Eliza LeBaron Gibbs.Jenney began his formal education at Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1846, and at the Lawrence Scientific school at Harvard in 1853, but transferred to École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École Centrale Paris) to study engineering and architecture.

  5. Deep foundation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_foundation

    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.

  6. Steel design - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_design

    Steel Design, or more specifically, Structural Steel Design, is an area of structural engineering used to design steel structures. These structures include schools , houses , bridges , commercial centers , tall buildings , warehouses , aircraft , ships and stadiums .

  7. Bedspace apartment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedspace_apartment

    A market street in Mong Kok, a residential district in Hong Kong. A bedspace apartment (Chinese: 牀位寓所; pinyin: chuáng wèi yùsuǒ; Jyutping: cong4 wai2 jyu6so2), also called cage home (籠屋; lóngwū; lung4uk1), coffin cubicle, or coffin home (棺材房; guāncai fáng; gun1coi4 fong2), is a type of residence that is only large enough for one loft bed surrounded by a metal cage.

  8. Glossary of structural engineering - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_structural...

    Structural steel – Structural steel design – Structural system – Strut channel – Subbasement – Subframe – Sublimation – Subsumption architecture – Surface tension – Superhard material – Surveying – Suspension bridge – is a type of bridge in which the deck (the load-bearing portion) is hung below suspension cables on ...

  9. Birdcage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdcage

    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.