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Definition of Box beam
1. Noun. A beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Beam
Literary usage of Box beam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(See box beam and Built Beam Mow.) A large beam is frequently known as a ...
box beam. An iron or steel beam, in shape like a long box with open ends, ..."
2. The Useful Metals and Their Alloys, Including Mining Ventilation, Mining by John Scoffern (1869)
"34). on account of its simplicity of construction ; although inferior in strength
to the box-beam, it has, nevertheless, other valuable properties to ..."
3. The Useful Metals and Their Alloys, Including Mining Ventilation, Mining by John Scoffern (1861)
"34), on account of its simplicity of construction ; although inferior in strength
to the box-beam, it has, nevertheless, other valuable properties to ..."
4. Notes on Building Construction: Arranged to Meet the Requirements of the by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1891)
"The box beam, it will be observed, contains a larger exterior sectional area,
and is consequently stiffer and better calculated to resist lateral strain, ..."
5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1886)
"Time upper track-beam, B, of the girder, is also a box-beam posed of two ...
The lower surface of the upper box-beam rests upon a term plate at time top of ..."
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