support columns
Load-bearing posts
Support columns are vertical structural elements that bear weight from above and transfer it to a foundation below.
In architecture and engineering, they hold up roofs, floors, and beams: The building's support columns are reinforced concrete.
The term appears in spreadsheet software for columns of data that feed into calculations, and metaphorically for anything that props up a larger system: Small businesses are the support columns of the local economy.
- pillarsLoad-bearing vertical structures
- load bearing wallWall transferring weight downward
- postsPublished online content
- load-bearingSustaining structural mass
- weight distributionHow mass is allocated
structural integrity · architecture · classical architecture · marble · stone · Corinthian · Doric · Ionic · foundation · structure · buttress · holding up · pedestal · uphold · weight · temple · portico · grand entrance
support columnsbeams
Rays or supports
girders · lintels · crossbeams · joists · rafters
support columnssuspension cables
Load-bearing bridge lines
tie rods · guy wires · hangers · suspenders
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