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2. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Framing side by side units. The erection of a wooden frame in Sabah, Malaysia. Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape. [ 1] Framing materials are usually wood, engineered wood, or structural steel. The alternative to framed construction is generally called mass wall construction, where ...

3. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Curtain wall (architecture) A building project in Wuhan, China, demonstrating the relationship between the inner load-bearing structure and an exterior glass curtain wall. Curtain walls are also used on residential structures. A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to ...

4. Portal frame - Wikipedia

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   Portal frame is a construction technique where vertical supports are connected to horizontal beams or trusses via fixed joints with designed-in moment -resisting capacity. [ 1] The result is wide spans and open floors. Portal frame structures can be constructed using a variety of materials and methods.

5. Steel frame - Wikipedia

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   Steel frame. Rectangular steel frame, or "perimeter frame" of the Willis building (at right) contrasted against the diagrid frame at 30 St Mary Axe (at center), in London. Steel frame is a building technique with a " skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof ...

6. Main distribution frame - Wikipedia

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   Main distribution frame. Small, single-sided MDF for a military base, 1940s. Modern main distribution frame. In telephony, a main distribution frame ( MDF or main frame) is a signal distribution frame for connecting equipment ( inside plant) to cables and subscriber carrier equipment ( outside plant ).

7. Tube (structure) - Wikipedia

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   By 1963, a new structural system of framed tubes had appeared in skyscraper design and construction. Fazlur Rahman Khan, a structural engineer from Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan) who worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, defined the framed tube structure as "a three dimensional space structure composed of three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear walls, joined at or ...