noun
definition
A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
definition
One who girds; a satirist.
Examples of girder in a Sentence
The underside of the stiffening girder is 82 ft.
It is the junction between the Oudh & Rohilkhand and East Indian railways, the Ganges being crossed by a steel girder bridge of seven spans, each 350 ft.
On the first English railways cast iron girder bridges for spans of to 66 ft.
Each girder is 1511 ft.
In the case of braced girder bridges, the wind pressure is taken as acting on a continuous surface extending from the rails to the top of the carriages, plus the vertical projected area of so much of one girder as is exposed above the train or below the rails.
A main girder consists of an upper and lower flange, boom or chord and a vertical web.
Then w 3 = (w l +w 2)1 2 /(Cds-1 2) = (w i -Fw 2)lr/ (Cs -lr), where C is a constant for any type of girder.
Masonry bridges are preferable in appearance to any others, and metal arch bridges are less objectionable than most forms of girder.
Generally a girder supports both a dead with a travelling load like a railway train, this is greater for partial and a live load.
The bracing bars, therefore, for this part of the girder must be adapted to resist either tension or thrust.
As railway loads increased and greater spans were demanded, the Howe truss was stiffened by timber arches on each side of each girder.
Next let the loads advance a distance a so that W2 comes to C. Then the shear at C is R(n+a)/l - WI, plus any reaction d at B, due to any additional load which has come on the girder during the movement.
Let W 1, W2, W3 traverse the girder from the left at fixed distances a, b.
As the loads move over the girder, the points C, D, E describe the parabolas M1, M2, M3 i the middle ordinates of which are 4W 1 1, 4W 2 1, and 4W3l.
Till W 1 has advanced a distance a only one load is on the girder, and the curve A"F gives bending moments due to W 1 only; as W1 advances to a distance a+b, two loads are on the girder, and the curve FG gives moments due to W 1 and W2.
With short bridges it is best to draw the curve of maximum bending moments for some assumed typical set of loads in the way just described, and to design the girder accordingly.
If the load rests directly on the main girder, the greatest -Iand - shears at C will be wXAGC and -w X CHB.
A frame used to support a weight is often called a truss; the stresses on the various members of a truss can be computed for any given load with greater accuracy than the intensity of stress on the various parts of a continuous structure such as a tubular girder, or the rib of an arch.
The hogbacked girder is a compromise between the two types, avoiding some difficulties of construction near the ends of the girder.
The value of H is equal to the maximum tension on the bottom flange, or compression on the top flange, of a girder of equal span, equally and similarly loaded, and having a depth equal to the dip of the suspension bridge.
The east side of the river (known as St Thomas's and Port Tennant) is approached from the west by a road carried over the North Dock Lock and the river by two girder drawbridges, each of which has a double line of roadway (on which tramways are laid), two footpaths and a line of railway.
A similar construction is followed for flat roofs, the grades being generally formed in the girder and beam construction, and a flat ceiling secured by hanging from them, with steel straps, a light tier of ceiling beams. The floor beams are tied laterally by rods in continuous lines placed at or above their neutral axis.
Showing a steel girder bridge across the Mgeni River, probably near Pietermaritzburg.
Then, turn around and you should see yet another girder.
Such a line has for abscissa the distance of a load from one end of a girder, and for ordinate the bending moment or shear at any given section, or on any member, due to that load.
When the load is at F', the reaction at B' is m/l and the moment at C' is m(l-x)ll, which will be reckoned positive, when it resists a tendency of the right-hand part of the girder to turn counter-clockwise.
Hence the moment of the load on Am at C is wy0m, and the moment of a uniform load over any portion of the girder is w X the area of the influence curve Ip' G' E ' under that portion.
Repeating the process for other positions, we get the influence line Aghb, for the shear at C due to unit load anywhere on the girder.
If the load is in the bay D'E' and is carried by a rail girder which distributes it to cross girders at D'E', the part of the influence line under this bay is altered.
Clearly, the distribution of the load by the rail girder considerably alters the distribution of shear due to a load in the bay in which the section considered lies.
The cost of the main girders for one span will vary nearly as the square of the span for any given type of girder and intensity of live load.
In 1883 an iron girder bridge of five spans was opened, which carries the North-Western railway to Peshawar, and has also a subway for wheeled traffic and foot passengers.
If the supporting member is a floor beam or girder the girder should be rigidly connected to the floor system to prevent any twisting due to the weight of the projection.
The arrangement of the building and floor framings is in a great measure governed by the architectural effect sought and by the arrangement and proper planning of the interior according to the intended uses; the positions of columns, girders and floor beams are usually the result of particular requirements, and unless complicated and expensive framing is to be expected the distance between columns must be kept within the limits of simple girder construction.
In case neither of the above methods can be applied, brackets should be used at each floor level or a continuous deep beam or girder carried all around the building.
The original bridge was strengthened in 1902 by the addition of a central steel girder as part of a general capacity improvement program.
He had in fact stepped onto a steel girder pushed up against the rung of the ladder.
The bridge is a big iron girder affair, built in 1907 to replace a ferry.
Reference 1 Inquiry into the basis of design and method of erection of steel box girder bridges HMSO 1971 Interim Report.
It is of steel girder construction but still looks quite rustic because of its timber balustrade.
The main girder is then virtually a continuous girder hinged at the points of contrary flexure, so that no ambiguity can arise as to the stresses.
The stiffening girder, constructed chiefly of timber, was a box-shaped braced girder 18 ft.
The girder held its position with both joints severed, proving that, as should be the case, there was no stress in the boom where the bending moment changes sign.
The clear span is 790 ft., and the suspended girder 200 ft.
The cantilever and suspended girder types are as economical and free from uncertainty as to ' ??` the stresses.
Roadster based frames are used as well as girder forks with no extra bracing.
Two halves of an arched girder roadway support, bolted together with fishplates.
This is due to the half weight of centre girder, the weight of the cantilever itself, the rolling load on half the bridge, and the wind pressure.
The centre girder may be built on the cantilevers and rolled into place or lifted from the water-level.
The girder spans are 525 ft., the cantilever spans 547 ft., and the shore spans 201 ft.