| Two or more structural steel members clamped together by high-strength bolts with sufficient force that the loads on the members are transmitted between them by friction along their mating surfaces.
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| A hinge designed to hold a door at any desired degree of opening by means of friction control incorporated in the knuckle of the hinge.
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| Loss in efficiency due to friction.
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| A pile calculated to carry all of its load by skin friction, neglecting any contribution of direct bearing on its point.
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| 1. The rubbing of one material against another. 2. The tangential surface resistance between two bodies in contact which move or tend to move with respect to each other.
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| A soil, such as sand, in which there is little or no attraction between its particles, and which derives its strength from geometric interlocking of the particles; a non-cohesive soil.
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| A rough, nubby-textured carpet using tightly twisted yarns; a carpet with pile of uncut loops or a combination of cut and uncut loops.
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| A tightly twisted yarn that gives a rough, nubby appearance to the pile; in addition to use in plain colors, it is employed to form designs against plain grounds and thus gives an engraved effect.
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| 1. A horizontal, often decorative, member of a cornice, set flat against a wall. 2. More broadly, any sculptured or ornamental band on a house, in a room, or on furniture.
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| The room containing the cold bath in Roman baths.
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| Benefits paid for by an employer for an employee in addition to basic wages; includes such benefits as vacations, sick time, health care, retirement, and disability insurance.
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| 1. The wholly or partly fused materials of which glass is made. 2. Ground-up glass used as a basis for glaze or enamel.
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| Float glass with crushed glass melted onto its surface, for the purpose of screening out glare, limiting solar gain, and providing various levels of opacity and color.
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| A glaze in which a part or all of the fluxing constituents are pre-fused.
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| A cleaving tool consisting of a wedge-shaped blade mounted at right angles to the blade; used for splitting blocks of wood into shingles or barrel staves.
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| 1. A loop on a belt to carry a tool. 2. A mechanical device that allows the train wheels on one track to cross over an intersecting track. 3. See Panel, 8.
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| A lock assembly mounted in a front door.
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| A tractor or bulldozer with a bucket which operates from the front of the vehicle.
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| The fraudulent practice of a contractors distorting the schle of values so that work done early in the contract will have higher values than work done later, for the purpose of obtaining payment before it is earned; also called Unbalancing the Schle of Values.
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| The cash needed to pay all the property development costs before financing can be put in place.
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| The space between a building and the front property line.
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| Condition in which liquid refrigerant flows from the evaporator into the suction line; usually indicated by sweating or frosting of the suction line.
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| see Automatic Frost Control.
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| see Manual Frost Control.
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| see Semiautomatic Frost Control.
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| Refrigerated cabinet which operates with an automatic defrost during each cycle.
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| The greatest depth to which ground may be expected to freeze.
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| Tile produced for use where freezing and thawing conditions occur.
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| 1. A covering of minute ice crystals that form on a cold surface. 2. Frozen soil.
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| Refrigerating system which maintains the evaporator at frosting temperatures during all phases of cycle.
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