truss
Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments
A frame assembled of small members (of wood or metal) in triangular sections; used to span large distances. Photo from Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown, Virginia, 2019. (Roth, 1979, 1980)
- compression piece
- main member
- guard-rail
- stiffening girder
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- joggle-piece
- pin connection
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- packing spools
- mule traveler
- lower lateral bracing
- queenpost
- bottom lateral bracing
- pendant-post
- king post roof
- K-bracing
- bridge truss
- riveted truss
- pin-connected truss
- camber jack
- truss joint
- open web beam
- continuous truss
- horizontal truss
- end pin
- queen rafter
- lateral system
- trussed partition
- truss piece
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- brase
- gang nail plate
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- king post
- chord
- queen post truss
- flange
- principal rafter
- pendant post
- queen truss
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- composite truss
- eye bar
- funicular truss
- king truss
- Maxwell diagram
- method of sections
- plane truss
- roof principal
- scissor truss
- simple truss
- trussed beam
- trussed joist
- trussed rafter
- compression member
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- Architecture & Ornament (1990)
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