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===== Structural elements =====

Longitudinal beam elements: **rails** or **tunnels**

Vertical beam elements: **pillars**, **upright members**, **montants**

Transverse beam elements: **cross member**, **ledger** (telai ladder frame, ponteggi..)

**girder**: horizontal main structural member (as in a building or bridge) that supports vertical loads

**diagonal member**, **diagonal bracing**: elemento triangolante un quadrilatero di travi

**brace**: elemento trabeiforme di irrigidimento, sostegno, collegamento

**door sills**: brancardo

**cradle**: culla, intelaiatura di sostegno "avvolgente"

**anti-roll bar** or **sway bar**: barra antirollio 

**Structural channel, C-beam, Parallel Flange Channel (PFC), open channel section** , profilato con sezione a C. 
//"A note on the dynamical behaviour of uniform beams having open channel section"//

**propeller shaft tunnel**

**steering column**: piantone sterzo

**steering rack**, **steering box**: scatola sterzo

**scuttle hoop**: curvano

**bulkhead**: paratia

**engine brackets**, **engine mounts**: staffe vano motore

**fender**: parafango, anche fiancata

**front pull hook**: gancio di traino

**draught connector**: attacco gancio di traino

**an oblique joint with a strengthening gusset**: giunto ad angolo con fazzoletto di rinforzo

**luggage compartment**, **spare wheel compartment**: vano bagagli, vano ruota di scorta

**dashboard frame body**: supporto (traversa) plancia

**bonnet**, **hood**: cofano

**strut bar**, **strut brace**: barra duomi

**firewall** : parafiamma, anche semplicemente **bulkhead**

**floor assembly** : pianale

**subframe**: telaietto

**rib**, **stiffening rib**: nervatura

**bead**, **stiffening bead**: "specie di canale concavo ottenuto nella lamiera mediante stampaggio e destinato a rinforzare la parete su cui è eseguito" (ad. dal Marolli); anche "cordone" (es. di saldatura).

**rivet**, **riveted joint**: rivetto, giunto rivettato

**bolt**, **bolted joint**: bullone, giunto bullonato

**inflection point**: punto di flesso

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Requests:

centina: centring (provisional support structure, formwork), rib

montante: upright member, mast

mozzo ruota: wheel hub

portamozzo: wheel bearing housing, (solo sterzante, steering knuckle, stub axle carrier)

tirante sterzo: tie rod

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