Citations:load-bearing

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  1. (chiefly construction and civil engineering) Able to support a load.
    • 1908: Frederick E. Turneaure, Editor-in-Chief, Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering
      The different forms of partitions that are not load-bearing will be considered under "Fireproofing."
    • 1958: Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Australian Atomic Energy Symposium, 1958: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Australia
      The reactor units each called for a circular pit over 300ft. in diameter, excavated to a depth of 20ft. to reach a suitable load-bearing stratum.
    • 1993: L. R. Marple, H. Bouadi, Effects of Impact Angle and Thickness on Graphite/Epoxy Laminated Plates, read in Proceedings of the American Society for Composites Eighth Technical Conference: Composite Materials, Mechanics and Processing
      As these materials gain a greater usage, and are utilised in larger and more load-bearing structural components, all possible structural behaviours must be completely characterised.
    • 1998: Hooshang Bolooki, Clinical Applications of the Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
      Therefore, in patients who receive long-term balloon pumping without a more load-bearing assist device than IABP, the chance of survival will be small.
    • 2001: Akram F. Khater, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920
      Alternating sandstone and limestone (the limestone being used in façades exposed to the winter rains or in more load-bearing areas) created a most pleasing decorative effect.
    • 2004: Peter Dickinson, Nigel Thornton, Cracking and Building Movement
      ...not only with the diagnosis in mind but also with the knowledge of where the cracks may indicate the damage may be and in the knowledge of which walls are the more load-bearing.
    • 2004: G. R. Evans, The First Christian Theologians, an Introduction to Theology in the Early Church
      It was in baptism (and in consequence in penance) that the theologically most load-bearing aspects of the liturgical life of the Church were concentrated.
    • 2004: European Patent Office, Corrected European Patent Application EP 1 393 891 A9
      Despite the foaming and thus the lowest elasticity modulus, the middle layer is the stiffest and the most load-bearing structure.
    • 2006: William Perkins Spence, The Home Carpenter & Woodworker's Repair Manual
      Anything with greater stress should go to a load-bearing interior wall.