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girder
(redirected from Box girders)

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girder

In building construction, a large main supporting beam, commonly of steel or reinforced concrete, that carries a heavy transverse (crosswise) load. In a floor system, beams and joists transfer their loads to the girders, which in turn frame into the columns.


girder
Botany the structure composed of tissue providing mechanical support for a stem or leaf

girder [′gər·dər]
(civil engineering)
A large beam made of metal or concrete, and sometimes of wood.


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It is a simple plane, made of steel box girders, which opens like a long new square from the tree-lined boulevard on the west bank to terminate at two thin pylons (in the Egyptian sense) on the other side of the canal.
steel box girders support approximately one-third of the structure
Bridge creates 3D models in which the designer can place pre-cast concrete beams, steel I-beams, steel box girders, concrete segmental box girders, arbitrary sections, and piers and barriers of all types.
 
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