tie-beam

Fig. 291: Section from gable wall to gable wall: Note the longitudinal rigidity through slanting pieces nailed into place between the tie-beam and the trussed rafters.

Chapter 7 1995

These are attached to the masonry of the gutter walls, at the lower side, under a ring-beam made of special sand-cement blocks used as lost formwork, by a stainless steel tie-beam linked to the roof rafter and on one section of rafter passing through the masonry, under the ring-beam.

Chapter 6 1995

The overhang consoles of the roof along the gutter walls, as well as that of the two verandahs, are fixed to the bracing tie-beam of the truss by a vertical piece of wood on the outside of the wall.

Chapter 7 1995

Finally, two massive pillars, 29.5 cm thick and 91.5 cm wide, are also bonded into the gutter walls in the median transverse axis; these are designed to receive the bracing tie-beam of the roof structure.

Chapter 7 1995

The bay of these 7 × 15 section angelica wood joists has an inter-axis of 56.7 cm and 47 cm on either of the bracing tie-beam of the roof structure; this tiebeam forms part of the joist system and takes up the purlin brackets of the roof overhang of the gutter roofs.

Chapter 7 1995

The bracing tie-beam rests on the top of the masonry pillars intended for this purpose, but with wooden wedges in between.

Chapter 7 1995

The metal tie-beam is clipped to a section of the rafter crossing through the masonry, under the sand-cement ring-beam.

Chapter 6 1995

The frame is composed of a truss made of several cross members and a tie-beam.

Chapter 10 1992

Figure 43: Channel form block in a tie-beam configuration

3. Precast Pumice-Concrete Building Members 1990

Abruptly a nearby tie-beam shrieked, tormented by the thousands of tons above.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981