Is the I-beam still favored overall?

[Loren Booda]

Is the I-beam still favored by structural engineers?

 

[DaveC426913]

Where do you get your questions?

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

 

[Danger]

Is the I-beam still favored by structural engineers?

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

 

[DaveC426913]

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]

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

 

[Pengwuino]

Where do you get your questions?

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

Finally someone says it!

 

[archis]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[dr dodge]

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]

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