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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(04-29-2016, 05:17 PM)Canard Wrote:
(04-29-2016, 03:55 PM)clasher Wrote: I think beams are a nice shape. Those are wide-flange beams, not I-beams... I-beams aren't very common anymore.

Right; if you want to get really picky, they're W-profile sections.

...but no one will know what you're talking about, unless they work in fabrication Smile So I think I-beam is still a valid name.

Oh yeah for sure, I work as an ironworker and I figured people here would be more receptive to a bit of nitpicking Smile I-beam is pretty much accepted as the colloquial term and we still use it in shop talk even though we all know better. W-beam just doesn't roll off the tongue.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by clasher - 04-29-2016, 05:20 PM
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