Research Results For 'Joist'

STRINGER

In engineering, a stringer is a small, subsidiary beam, joist, or girder. A stringer is connected with, and supported by, other portions of a structure, such as a roof-rafter, floor joist, or the girders or beams of a bridge carrying the rails or roadway and supported in turn by other girders.
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RSJ

RSJ is an abbreviation for Rolled-Steel Joist
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BINDING JOIST

In architecture a binding joist is the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.
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GAIN

In architecture a gain is a square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

JOIST

In architecture a joist is a piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed. The joints are called varying names according to their position or use, a binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming
joist, etc.
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TORSEL

In building, a torsel is a block of stone or piece of wood or iron set in a wall to support a beam or joist.
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TRIMMING JOIST

In architecture a trimming joist is a joist into which timber trimmers are framed.
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