STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Structural elongated elements for buildings, prefabricated or not, as individual structural elements per se, e.g. pillars, columns, beams, girders, trusses;

Two-dimensional prefabricated building elements for the construction of parts of buildings, like sheets, slabs or panels, mainly for walls or partitions;

Apparatus for handling smaller elements or hardenable material for the realization of two-dimensional concrete or stone-like prefabricated elements;

Bricks or block shaped elements, but only if having special adaptations, like e.g. serving for locating conduits, or being transparent, or being built-up from parts of different materials;

Concrete reinforcements, of metal or other materials, e.g. rebars, stirrups, reinforcing grids or cages, reinforcing fibres, connectors and spacers for reinforcements

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Compositions of concrete, mortars or like building materials -> C04B - Structural elements for bridges -> E01D - Building foundations -> E02D - Structural elements specially designed for insulation or other protection -> E04B - Building construction in general -> E04B1/00 - Load-bearing walls made from panels -> E04B1/02 - E04B1/14 - Load- and non-load-bearing walls made up of layers of building elements, e.g. brick walls; bricks or block shaped building elements for walls -> E04B2/02 - E04B2/54 - Other load-bearing walls -> E04B2/56 - E04B2/709 and E04B2/84 - E04B2/8664 - Other non-load-bearing walls; Curtain walls -> E04B2/72 - E04B2/8664 ; E04B2/88 - E04B2/967 - Floor structures -> E04B5/00 - Roof structures -> E04B7/00 - Suspended or false ceilings -> E04B9/00 - Roof coverings -> E04D - Finishing work on building, e.g. lining, covering, flooring -> E04F - Panels for lining or finishing -> E04F13/00 - Elements used as building aids, e.g. scaffolding, forms -> E04G - Buildings or like structures for particular purposes, e.g. small temporary buildings, waiting shelters, telephone cabinets -> E04H - Structural elements for mining -> E21 - Structural elements for tunnels -> E21D - Structural elements with broader range of application than for building engineering -> F16