tie-rods

The use of ring-beams, post-compression loads (parapets), thick walls or buttresses, and sometimes tie-rods for wide span vaults, overcomes the stresses exerted on the walls and directs them towards the foundations.

Chapter 6 1995

The span for receiving the beams varies from 0.50 m for small systems to 2 m for the largest which can require the use of metal tie-rods.

Chapter 6 1995

He was dark from the furnace, his sockets awaited eyes, the tie-rods still stood out from his crown and nape, there was a nick on his brow from a bit of grit in the clay.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

The coloring of the roof, tie-rods and piers expands over the turmoil below the cooling calm of blue and silver.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

The concrete walls are supported on wooden piles, prevented from spreading by 7/8-in. tie-rods at 10-ft. intervals, and embedded in concrete under the paving of the platform.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153 E. B. Temple

When the excavation had been carried down in this manner to the level of the top of the tunnel, diagonal 3 by 10-in. timbers were cut in between the posts and sills to form a species of double A-frame, the legs of which rested in niches cut in the rock and on posts carried up the face of the underpinning wall, and the whole was stiffened with vertical tie-rods.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158 James H. Brace

Each frame carries in its turn three other plate springs, to which the body is suspended by means of iron tie-rods serving to support it.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

In Great Britain cable bracing gave place to a great extent to 'stream-line wires,' which are steel rods rolled to a more or less oval section, while tie-rods were also extensively used for the internal bracing of the wings.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

The main 4-inch channels upon which the calorimeter is supported, the tie-rods and turn-buckles anchoring the framework to the ceiling, the

Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913

It was impossible, surely, that this rock-like mass could be insecure; how puny and insufficient to uphold such a tottering giant seemed the tie-rods whose section he was working out.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895