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Robie House: cantilever beam Forth Railway Bridge Figure 3: Cantilever crane used in shipyards Diagram of a cantilever bridge spanning water, with red lines marking areas under tension and green lines marking areas under compression in the bridge structure.
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Robie House: cantilever Cantilever on the Robie House, Chicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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cantilever, beam supported at one end and carrying a load at the other end or distributed along the unsupported portion. The upper half of the thickness of such a beam is subjected to tensile stress, tending to elongate the fibres, the lower half to compressive stress, tending to crush them. Cantilevers are employed extensively in building construction and in machines. In building, any beam built into a wall and with the free end projecting forms...

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