What is "girders"

Usage examples of "girders".

It was one hundred and fifteen meters long and was comprised primarily of buckycarbon girders, with wrinkled radiation-shield fabric wrapped around module niches, semiautonomous sniffer probes, scores of antennae, sensors, and cables.

A figure emerged laboriously from behind a pyramid of twisted girders in the middle distance.

Then, as if an unseen hand had reached forth from the void and administered the final, fateful push, the enormous pile fell faster, its once beautiful column splitting in three places from which girders stuck like rotten teeth.

Above the enormous hole was a quarter-mile gap in the shattered skyway, a break from the ragged ends of which stubby lengths of twisted, rusting girders stuck.

When shots sounded around them they stopped again, crouching behind girders to return fire.

Olga was running again and he turned and followed her, putting distance and angles and walls and more girders between themselves and the dragoons.

Between us and the point, as I looked upward in awe, there was nothing but a lattice of girders and air, air, air.

Myriads of bright yellow little birds were perched on the girders, or flitting through the prisms of light admitted by the bizarre windows, by the great triangles of glass that pierced the crown.

Chemayev had not paid much attention to the room when he had entered, but he was fairly certain the walls had not been covered, as they were now, with a faded earth-toned mural like those found on the walls of factories during the Communist era: determined-looking, square-jawed men and broad-shouldered women with motherly bosoms engaged in the noble state-approved pursuit of dump-truck-assembly, faces aglow with the joy of communal effort, their sinewy arms seemingly imbued with the same iron strength as the mighty girders and grimly functional machinery that framed them.

Rising beyond the west wall, several iron girders were visible, evidence of the new wing that was under construction.

Behind them, the tops of the girders burned gold, like iron candles touched with holy fire.

Kneeling among blackened girders and burnt grass was a woman, the third member of the AID team.

Beams and girders had crumpled, blocking the last ten meters of the approach.

The long array of girders, tanks, columns, and rings began to rotate ever so slowly.

The girders and beams and cross-supports might not have been wood and metal but bony accretions of calcium and other minerals, the last remains of a decomposed leviathan washed up on the lonely beach of an ancient sea.