load-bearing
- s capable of bearing a structural load
- The next step is for GM to use nanocomposites in car interiors and bumpers and eventually in load-bearing structural parts, such as vehicle frames.
- The terrorists reported that the Citigroup building, "like the World Trade Center, is supported on steel, load-bearing walls, not on a steel frame.
- Impressed by the material's load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard "improved wood"), he thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated 34-ply tubes .