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solebar

solebar noun: one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor.

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Noun

solebar (plural solebars)

  1. (Australia, UK) One of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor.
    • The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 327
    • The shuttle locomotive body is a conventional stress-skin monocoque structure, with longitudinal members at solebar and cantrail levels.1995, Roger Ford, “Locomotives”, in Colin J. Kirkland, editor, Engineering the Channel Tunnel, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, Rolling stock, page 178
    Synonyms:
    side sill

Examples of solebar in a sentence

  • The bolster to solebar weld on one side, and the weld between the solebar and the front headstock on the other side had broken completely.2001, A.P.Brights, N. Kirk, S. Manteghi and P.J. Murrell, edited by Brain S. Neale, Forensic engineering: the investigation of failures...
  • [...] the original Chalice built coaches have a deep solebar, while the Keef coaches were much shallower.2001, Peter Scott, A History of the Butlin's Railways: The Story of Billy Butlin's Amusement Park and Holiday Camp Miniature Railways...
  • Sometimes the door also cuts off main structural components such as the solebar or cantrail.2005, Jan Prockat, Developing large structural parts for railway application using a fibre reinforced polymer design, Univerlagtuberlin...

Synonyms of solebar

  • side sill

Forms of solebar

pluralsolebars
alternative formsole-bar

Origin of solebar

From sole + bar.

Questions about solebar

What does solebar mean?
Solebar means one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor.
How do you use solebar in a sentence?
The bolster to solebar weld on one side, and the weld between the solebar and the front headstock on the other side had broken completely.
What part of speech is solebar?
Solebar is a noun.
What is the plural of solebar?
The plural of solebar is solebars.

Words near solebar in the dictionary

  1. sole trader
  2. sole traders
  3. sole-like
  4. soleal
  5. solear
  6. solebar
  7. solebars
  8. Solebury
  9. solecise
  10. solecised
  11. solecises

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