In structural engineering and construction, an eyebar is a straight bar, usually of metal, with a hole (`eye`) at each end for fixing to other components. Eyebars are used in structures such as bridges, in settings in which only tension, and never compression, is applied. ==Shape== A closed eyebar will typically have a rectangular cross section .....
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• (n.) A bar with an eye at one or both ends.
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(from the article `bridge`) ...caissons. The first suspension-bridge towers were stone, but now they are either steel or concrete. Next, the anchorages are built on both ends, ... The use of relatively economical wrought iron freed up the imaginations of designers, and one of the first results was Telford`s use of chain ... [2 relate...
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Eye'bar` noun (Engineering) A bar with an eye at one or both ends.
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a tension member, used esp. in bridge and roof trusses, having the form of a metal bar enlarged at each end to include an eye.
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