Trusses in a sentence

Peering through a fence, we saw row after row of trusses, waiting for their photovoltaic panels.

The 1982 three-level, four-bedroom home has a living room with exposed trusses, stone floors, and column fireplace; a garden-to-table kitchen; and a beamed, glass-faced primary suite with fireplace, all with panoramic mountain and ocean views.

The new system involves installing those big metal trusses that we pass under.

But far and away the biggest challenge was sourcing enough reclaimed barnwood to construct every nook and cranny of the home including the flooring, as well as the massive hand-hewn timber structural trusses and beams.

From the kitchen, you can access the conservatory, a light and versatile area which features a cobbled stone wall and timber wood trusses.

In the case of the Key Bridge, designers also took the cost-effective option of making it continuous, meaning the trusses were so rigidly attached to each other that if one collapsed, the others followed.

Other plans include a spa room in the upper tower floor, featuring a copper bath below the conical roof with exposed original trusses.

The next step involves adding the roof structure, where you’ll need to consider the roof pitch and install rafters and trusses.

Twisted bridge trusses weighing thousands of tons still entrap the damaged container ship.

Inside what remained of the building, McCall saw a woman pinned beneath one of the fallen steel roof trusses.

Techniques that can help improve the usable life of roofs, concrete, slats and trusses need to be considered and implemented, says Kapil Arora, ag engineering field specialist with Iowa State University Extension.

No information has been directly released by the companies involved on that potential issue, and whether the trusses are in fact damaged.

They are hoping the next couple of weeks they can get some trusses up.

He believed that the weight per foot of the span and the cables would provide enough stiffness so that the bridge would not need any stiffening trusses.

Most trusses use gusset plates to connect intersecting elements.

Octet trusses are now among the most common types of truss used in construction.

The fires weakened the trusses supporting the floors, making the floors sag.

The Fort Steuben Bridge (Weirton-Steubenville Bridge) was at its time of construction one of only three cable-stayed steel girder trusses in the United States.

The main drawbacks of trusses are reduced attic space, time required for engineering and ordering, and a cost higher than the dimensional lumber needed if the same project were conventionally framed.

The setup may look similar to the R-7 launch procedure but in the case of the R-7 the trusses hold the full weight of the rocket, rather than just reacting to side forces.