Is the I-beam still favored overall?

**Loren Booda** · Nov8-09, 01:20 AM

Is the I-beam still favored by structural engineers?

**DaveC426913** · Nov8-09, 01:27 AM

Where do you get your questions???

Do you close your eyes, flip open an Encyclopedia, and point?

**Danger** · Nov8-09, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by Loren Booda

Is the I-beam still favored by structural engineers?

Yes, because the G-beam is too expensive to produce.

**DaveC426913** · Nov8-09, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by Danger

Yes, because the G-beam is too expensive to produce.

Oh come on, you missed a beautiful retort.

The I-beam is not "still" preferred, it is "only recently" preferred. The I-beam is actually an evolution from an earlier form, the H-beam.

Every kid learned in school that H came before I.

**Danger** · Nov8-09, 01:59 AM

I thought that the I-beam was just a circumcised H-beam.

**Pengwuino** · Nov8-09, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by DaveC426913

Where do you get your questions???

Do you close your eyes, flip open an Encyclopedia, and point?

Finally someone says it!

**archis** · Nov8-09, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Danger

I thought that the I-beam was just a circumcised H-beam.

Wow, all my life I though the I-beam was a infelicitous l-beam.

**Loren Booda** · Nov8-09, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by DaveC426913

Oh come on, you missed a beautiful retort.

The I-beam is not "still" preferred, it is "only recently" preferred. The I-beam is actually an evolution from an earlier form, the H-beam.

Every kid learned in school that H came before I.

The I-beam is self-assured; it would have to be, balancing over 100 stories above the street!

**dr dodge** · Nov9-09, 07:21 AM

the old school of thought was the I beam.
in the modern era of community spirit, world cooperation and non competition amongst individuals

it is now either the WE-beam, or the US-beam

there is no I in team (only AT ME)

dr

**FredGarvin** · Nov9-09, 08:22 AM

I try not to use I-beams too much. They annoy other drivers.

**dr dodge** · Nov9-09, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by FredGarvin

I try not to use I-beams too much. They annoy other drivers.

and as the thread slowly drifts away, we have to say,

punny, very punny

dr

**Danger** · Nov9-09, 10:30 AM

You have to have known the flightless one for a few years to understand why this is happening...