truss — A framework of triangulated forms in which all loads are carried by compression or tension in each member of the frame. It is time for the fire service to make peace with an old nemesis: the ...

crosses the Yaquina River, just west of Eddyville, at milepost 17 just off U.S. 20. This was the first covered bridge to be restored in Lincoln County, which has four. The bridge got its name from the ...

Exposed trusses are exceptional architectural elements, at once structural -- they hold up the roof -- while modulating a space to give it scale and rhythm. But with the many truss types out there, ...

RAYNE TOWNSHIP — Indiana County Parks & Trails recently secured $807,314 to restore and repair the Kintersburg Covered Bridge — one of only four Howe truss bridges remaining in Pennsylvania. The ...

THIS little book is intended to serve the purposes of students in mechanical and electrical engineering, who desire to have some knowledge of the methods of design adopted in civil engineering, and ...