Definition of Box girder

1. Noun. A beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section.

Exact synonyms: Box Beam
Generic synonyms: Beam

Definition of Box girder

1. Noun. A steel beam with a hollow rectangular cross section; used for constructing bridges ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Girder

box-to-box midfielders
box-turtle
box Kodak
box and whiskers plot
box beam
box calf
box camera
box cameras
box clever
box coat
box cutter
box cutters
box elder
box end wrench
box family
box girder (current term)
box huckleberry
box in
box iron
box irons
box jelly
box jellyfish
box kick
box kite
box model
box office
box offices
box oneself into a corner
box out
box pleat

Literary usage of Box girder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Compound Riveted Girders: As Applied in the Construction of Buildings. With by William Harvey Birkmire (1893)
"Box-girder section with three flange plates I 5. box girder-section with three webs I 6. ... Box-girder section with rivets in single shear 12 13. ..."

2. The Mechanics' Magazine (1858)
"This box-girder has in some cases two cast- iron portions or feet cast upon it. Figs. 3 and 4 are a cross section and a plan of »n intermediate chair bolted ..."

3. Notes on Building Construction: Arranged to Meet the Requirements of the by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1891)
"... Example of box girder. Example 37.—Calculate and design a box plate girder to act as a ... box girder."

4. The Theory of Strains in Girders and Similar Structures: With Observations by Bindon Blood Stoney (1873)
"Flanged girder—Single-webbed girder -Doable webbed or Tabular girder—Box girder—Tubular bridge.— In the term Flanged girder are included not only iron ..."

5. Street Railways: Their Construction, Operation and Maintenance. (Trams) A by Charles Bryant Fairchild (1892)
"290 box girder Rail 291 Duplex Rail 291 High Girder Rails—Boston and Philadelphia Types 292 box girder Rail in Macadam and Stone Pavements ..."

6. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"The width of the box-girder is determined by the length of the jacks, which when inserted should have only the stuffing box of the cylinder extending ..."

7. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"The buck boom is a box-girder made up of plates and angle irons, and is 2 ft. sq., weighing 6^j tons. The two Fm. 1.—Sellers 30-ton swinging crane. members ..."

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