Architectural and Engineering Glossary
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See battened wall.
1.Any type of ornament consisting of narrow fillets or bands that are folded,crossed,or interlaced.2.Interlacing decorative bands found within gables;especially found in Tudor architecture and Tudor Revival,as well as in northern Europe.
A theater used only in the summertime.
Incidental light reaching an area from sources used to light other areas.
Flat pieces of thin bedded or foliated rock taken from the channel of a small,high gradient stream;has a sloped overlapping pattern resembling shingling.
The flow of a liquid or gas past a solid body in a manner so that the velocity of the fluid,at every point,does not change with time.
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A specification containing adequate technical information for the construction of the work,1 but written in an abbreviated manner.
A public thoroughfare,usually paved,including all area within the right-of-way,such as sidewalks;a public way.
Same as service ell.
See service ell.
The benches,signs,lights,fixtures,and receptacles provided as part of the design of a street right of way.
A complete lighting device consisting of a light source together with its appurtenances such as a globe,reflector,refractor,housing,and such support as is integral with the housing; the pole,post,and bracket are not included.
The assembly of a pole or lamppost with a bracket and a street lighting luminaire.
1.A lot line dividing a lot or other area from a street.2.A side boundary of a street,defined by the instrument creating that street as having a stated width.
See gas main and water main.
The exposed or wearing surface of a roadway.
Any part of a structure that extends beyond the street building line,including but not limited to architectural features,marquees,fire escapes,flagpoles,marquees,and signs.
The wall of the building nearest a street line abutting the property.
Of a material,the capability of the material to resist physical forces imposed on it.
A fundamental design technique for providing a margin of safety in a structure.
The internal forces set up at a point in an elastic material by the action of external forces;expressed in units of force per unit area,e.g.,pounds per square inch or kilograms per square millimeter.
See structural analysis.
Localized stress (usually as a result of localized loading or changes in geometry) which is significantly higher than the average stress.
Corrosion of a metal which is accelerated by stress.
A failure of metals by cracking as a result of corrosion and stress.
An external or internal crack in a plastic caused by internal or external tensile stresses;environmental conditions frequently accelerate the development of such cracks.Also see crazing.
The cracking of a weld or a base metal which contains residual stresses.
See stress strain diagram.
The ratio between the stress at failure to the maximum permissible stress.
In fatigue testing,a curve showing the relation between the value of stress and the number of cycles at that value of stress required to produce failure in the test specimen.
The difference between the maximum and minimum values of stress in a member which result from different loading conditions.
The time dependent decrease in stress in a constrained material under a constant load.
Lumber graded for strength according to growth rate,grain slope,and defects.
The uniform heating of a material or structure to a temperature high enough to relieve the major portion of the residual stresses,followed by uniform cooling.
Same as stressed skin panel.
A panel composed of a core which is faced on both sides with plywood or another suitable sheet material, providing strength for the complete assembly.
Construction in which a thin material,on the exterior surface of a building,is utilized to carry loads.
In prestressed concrete,the end of the tendon from which the load is applied,when tendons are stressed from one end only.
An area of patent glazing.
The installation of carpet by stretching it over carpet underlayment and attaching it to a tackless strip around the perimeter of the carpet.
A masonry unit laid horizontally with its length in the direction of the face of the wall.
A concrete masonry unit which is laid as a stretcher.
A course consisting only of stretchers.
The long face of an exposed brick which is laid as a stretcher.
The flattening of metal sheets by stretching them mechanically.
Same as stretcher bond.
A stretcher course.
A tie,strut,or brace.
1.A fillet.2.A rib,esp.one repeated to give texture.
Fluted,as a column.
