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Definition of Spandrels
1. spandrel [n] - See also: spandrel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spandrels
Literary usage of Spandrels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"Open spandrels.—With hollow or open spandrels the roadway is supported by floor
arches, beams, or slabs carried by transverse walls or columns. ..."
2. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1906)
"With very short spans and with very flat arches, unless very long, hollow spandrels
are, of course, not practicable. But great refinement in computing the ..."
3. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"Open spandrels.—With hollow or open spandrels the roadway is supported by floor
arches, beams, or slabs carried by transverse walls or columns. ..."
4. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"Open spandrels.—With hollow or open spandrels the roadway is supported by floor
arches, beams, or slabs carried by transverse walls or columns. ..."
5. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1906)
"With very short spans and with very flat arches, unless very long, hollow spandrels
are, of course, not practicable. But great refinement in computing the ..."
6. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"ARRANGEMENT OF spandrels AND RINGS The spandrel, which is the space between ...
Filled spandrels- In this form of construction the earth or concrete filling ..."
7. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1909)
"ARRANGEMENT OF spandrels AND RINGS The spandrel, which is the space between ...
Filled spandrels In this form of construction the earth or concrete filling ..."
8. Architectural Engineering: With Special Reference to High Building by Joseph Kendall Freitag (1901)
"spandrels AND SPANDREL SECTIONS—BAY WINDOWS. THE spandrels constitute those
portions of the exterior walls, either on the street fronts or on interior ..."
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