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, ...

They used to be all over Oregon from the 1920s through the ’50s: “standard highway” wooden covered bridges with a Howe Truss design. But the one that spanned the Willamette Slough on Irish Bend Road ...

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 ...