girder

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Scanning the rubble, Ali caught sight of a pink, soot-covered pair of girls’ tracksuit bottoms, hanging from a steel girder jutting out of the heap.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024

A construction crew was removing a clock base from a Pine Street sidewalk on April 25 when they broke through the tunnel ceiling at Westlake Station, damaging a concrete girder above the northbound tracks.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2023

The rise of white collar work in downtown L.A. — and the invention of elevators and steel girder construction — also contributed to skyline development at the turn of the century, Deverell said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2022

They can also penetrate materials that x-rays cannot, enabling researchers to image the interiors of big objects such as a running engine or a steel girder.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2021

They were braced in place by a horizontal girder, to which iron columns and webs were riveted.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George