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  2. Howe truss - Wikipedia

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    William Howe was a construction contractor in Massachusetts when he patented the Howe truss design in 1840. [3] That same year, he established the Howe Bridge Works to build bridges using his design. [4] The first Howe truss ever built was a single-lane, 75-foot (23 m) long bridge in Connecticut carrying a road. [1]

  3. Truss - Wikipedia

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    A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure. [ 1] In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". [ 2] A "two-force member" is a structural component where force ...

  4. Truss bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Hart Bridge spanning the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, is a continuous, cantilevered truss bridge which combines a suspended road deck on the 332-metre (1,088 ft) main span and through truss decks on the adjacent approach spans. A railway bridge with a rail track in Leflore County, Mississippi.

  5. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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    This is an example of a "double roof" with principal rafters and common rafters. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof. Trusses usually occur at regular intervals, linked by longitudinal timbers such as purlins. The space between each truss is known ...

  6. Tube (structure) - Wikipedia

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    Tube (structure) John Hancock Center in Chicago, designed in 1965 and finished in 1969, is an example of the trussed tube structural design. In structural engineering, the tube is a system where, to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, impact), a building is designed to act like a hollow cylinder, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground.

  7. Fink truss - Wikipedia

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    Interior of a barn with a Fink truss, with the characteristic W shape. Fink design trusses are used today for pedestrian bridges and as roof trusses in building construction in an inverted (upside down) form where the lower chord is present and a central upward projecting vertical member and attached diagonals provide the bases for roofing. [9]

  8. Hammerbeam roof - Wikipedia

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    A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.

  9. Staggered truss system - Wikipedia

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    The staggered truss system for steel framing is an efficient structural system for high-rise apartments, hotels, motels, dormitories, and hospitals. The arrangement of story-high trusses in a staggered pattern at alternate column lines provide large column-free areas for room layouts. [2] These column free areas can be utilized for ballrooms ...

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