- bearing bar: load carrying bars made from steel strip or slit sheet or from rolled extending in the direction of the grating span. - banding bar: a flat welded to a side or end of a grating panel, or along the line of a cutout, and extending neither above nor below the bearing bars. - - cross bars: the connecting bars, made from steel strip, slit sheet, or rolled bars, which extend across the bearing bars, usually perpendicular to them. They maybe into a corrugated or sinuous pattern and where they intersect the bearing bars, are welded forged or mechanically locked to them. - bearing bar centers: the distance center to center of bearing bars. - cross bar centers: the distance center to center of cross bars.
