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Definition of Cantilevers
1. cantilever [v] - See also: cantilever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantilevers
Literary usage of Cantilevers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1908)
"The cables are brought across the river in three spans, one span from steel
cantilevers at the top of the cliff on the Canadian side to steel towers at the ..."
2. Principles of Economy in the Design of Metallic Bridges by Charles B. Bender (1885)
"In constructing cantilevers as regular trusses with parallel chords, ...
Wherever cantilevers are to be used, the spans are of such sizes that great depths ..."
3. A Treatise on Design and Construction of Roofs by Nathan Clifford Ricker (1912)
"THREE-HINGED ARCH WITH Cantilevers AT ENDS 209. Description.—This truss is superior
to that of Example 15 in appearance and the cantilevers would here ..."
4. Theory and Practice in Designing by Henry Adams (1911)
"CHAPTER XVII DESIGNING CAST-IRON Cantilevers AND GIRDERS UNDER VARIOUS LOADING—GIRDERS
FOR ... Assume that cast-iron cantilevers, projecting 6 ft. from ..."
5. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"This can be accomplished by placing a girder under the wall, the girder n turn
resting on the cantilever, or by using a number of cantilevers arranged Fig. ..."
6. Practical Building Construction by John Parnell Allen (1897)
"Computation of Strains on Cantilevers, Girders, and Trusses variously loaded.
... Cantilevers—Load Concentrated.—Assuming that he thoroughly un- Fig 9+6 ..."
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