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2. Stub-girder system - Wikipedia

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   Sections show crane girder, tank below ground level, and five-foot pocket for storing "warm" reactor parts. c.a. sundberg and associates. A stub-girder system (or stub girder system) is a model of steel frame structures consisting of beams and decking, originally developed in the early 1970s in part by Joseph Colaco of Ellisor Engineers Inc..

3. Self-framing metal buildings - Wikipedia

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   Length is primarily limited by the ability of the load path to transfer loads to a vertical brace system (e.g. gable endwall). Building length can be extended with added discrete brace systems (e.g. roof level horizontal brace, portal frame, diagonal brace, interior partition shear wall). Building height: 2.5 m (8' +/-) to 7.5 m (24' +/-) is ...

4. Steel frame - Wikipedia

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   Steel frame structure Rectangular steel frame, or "perimeter frame" of the Willis building (at right) contrasted against the diagrid frame at 30 St Mary Axe (at center), in London. Steel frame is a building technique with a " skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams , constructed in a rectangular grid to support the ...

5. Structural system - Wikipedia

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   The primary lateral load-resisting system defines if a structural system is an interior or exterior one. [2] The following interior structures are possible: Hinged frame; Rigid frame; Braced frame and Shear-walled frame; Outrigger structures (supporting overhangs) The following exterior structures are possible: Buttresses; Diagrid; Exoskeleton ...

6. Tube (structure) - Wikipedia

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   By 1963, a new structural system of framed tubes had appeared in skyscraper design and construction. Fazlur Rahman Khan, a structural engineer from Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan) who worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, defined the framed tube structure as "a three dimensional space structure composed of three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear walls, joined at or ...

7. Bent (structural) - Wikipedia

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   A bent in American English is a transverse rigid frame (or similar structures such as three-hinged arches).Historically, bents were a common way of making a timber frame; they are still often used for such, and are also seen in small steel-frame buildings, where the term portal frame is more commonly used.