| The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders. |
| The ceiling collapsed in as the girders gave way and the support beams snapped. |
| Internally, the building is divided into a nave, transepts and side aisles composed of ornamental cast-iron columns and girders. |
| But then unbreakable generosity of spirit ran through her nature like girders. |
| Which means making things with beams and girders and wheels and axles and pumps and engines a millionth of a millimetre long. |
| Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it. |
