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2. Grade beam - Wikipedia

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   Grade beam. A grade beam or grade beam footing is a component of a building's foundation. It consists of a reinforced concrete beam that transmits the load from a bearing wall into spaced foundations such as pile caps or caissons. [1]

3. Precast concrete - Wikipedia

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   Precast parking structure showing an interior column, girders, and double-tee structural floors. The two gray circles are covers to close the lifting anchor holes. Precast concrete building components and site amenities are used architecturally as fireplace mantels, cladding, trim products, accessories and curtain walls.

4. Girder bridge - Wikipedia

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   The cap is the part that supports the bearing pads. Depending on the type of support structure, there may or may not be a cap. Wall piers and stub abutments do not require a cap, while a multi-column, hammerhead, or pile-bent pier will have a cap. The stem or stub is the main body of the foundation. It transfers the load from the superstructure ...

5. W. Hawkins Ferry House - Wikipedia

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   The main structure is of slender precast concrete columns, set in a grid pattern. The columns are supported with stainless steel posts, with similar caps on the top. The house is topped with a wide steel-framed roof, which overhangs the walls by seven feet. The floors are concrete. The facades are divided into four bays by the columns.

6. Double tee - Wikipedia

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   The first building with all pre-stressed concrete columns, beams, and double tees was a two-story office building in Winter Haven, Florida, designed and built in 1961 by Gene Leedy. Leedy experimented when building his architectural office by using structural elements of prestressed concrete and designing the new "double-tee" structural elements.

7. Falsework - Wikipedia

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   Stringer: Steel beam that ties caps together Top cap: Steel Beam Post: steel pipe or 12×12 lumber. Bottom cap: steel beam Wedge pack: 4×4 lumber cut into wedges for falsework adjustment, various lumber sizes include 2×6s and plywood Corbel: distribute load to pads. Typical material is 12×12 lumber and steel beams Pad: distribute load to ground.