steel girders
Building's metal skeleton
Steel girders are heavy horizontal beams made of steel, used as primary structural supports in buildings, bridges, and other large constructions.
The phrase typically evokes industrial-scale building—the skeletal framework of skyscrapers rising before walls go up: Workers walked across the steel girders twenty stories above the street.
- bridge deckSpan's travel surface
- rivetsPermanent metal fasteners
- beamStructural support member
- rolling millMachine for shaping metal
- red hotExtremely heated or popular
ironworker · hard hat · safety harness · heavy lifting · cantilever · column · flange · building code · welding · shear force · erection · truss · tonnage · I-beam · forging · extrusion · scaffolding · rust
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- iron & steel itemswrought iron, cast iron, iron gates, iron railings, iron nails
- rail transitsubway, metro, tram, train, trains
- Glass Architectureglass walls, glass facades, glass towers, curtain walls, glass panels
steel girderswooden beams
Cut lumber for framing
timber framing · adobe construction · straw bales · rammed earth · adobe walls
steel girderstent poles
Rods supporting portable shelters
paper walls · curtain rods · decorative trim · decorative molding