falsework
A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.
Noun
- A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.
- Both steel and timber forms were used, supported on a falsework of steel beams erected on the new abutments at each end and on temporary piles which were driven into the river bed at mid-span. - 1955 February, “Notes...
- Each [girder] measuring 38 metres long, they will sit below four steel tripods which will support the falsework and formwork. - 2024 May 17, “Network News: Viaduct carrying HS2 into Curzon Street takes shape”, in RAIL,...
- Scaffolding, a temporary frame serving to support and brace a building under construction until it can stand alone.
- ... the woefully incomplete Ferris Wheel ... was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework. - 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, page 236:
Origin
From false + work.