Beam/ Side sheets

beam a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc, esp one used as a horizontal structural member. any rigid member or structure that is loaded transversely. beams are connected all the columns of the building. A beam stands for a vertical or sloping structural component that primarily withstands vertical loads, shear forces & bending moments employed laterally to the beam's axis as well as joins columns and support slabs. Its mode of deflection occurs mainly by bending.