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UNDERPIN
To provide a new support under an existing structure without removal of the super structure.
ULTIMATE LIMIT STATE
See Limit State.
ULTIMATE STRESS
The stress at which fracture in steel occurs. (This is not a metallurgist's definition.)
ULTRASONIC WELD TESTING
A process using ultrasound to detect flaws within the body of a weld.
UNIVERSAL SECTION
A range of hot rolled sections of I and H section with parallel flanges.

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