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A truss is a assembly of beams or other objects that creates a ridged structure. A trust also consists of a two force member with the object and acts like a singular object with that structure.

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Trusses are one of the most widely adopted structural designs, many times being utilized as the structural solution of choice for bridges, planes, roofs, and aircraft. Trusses are defined as structures composed of slender bars connected to each other through pins at their endpoints.

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They get interconnected to build bridges and there are different types that are used in different situations. When identifying a truss bridge, one can look at the traffic deck to characterize them. For example, a deck truss- one of the less common bridge trusses- can be identified by all of the trusses being underneath the traffic deck and supporting its weight.

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Trusses are an advanced group of beams that work together to support a larger, heavier object like planes, cars, and houses.

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Vierendeel Truss:

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trusses are made from numerous smaller structures being joined together

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Trusses use tension to maintain structure with it's hinges, therefore trusses are not able to bend as they rely on tension.

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Trusses are mainly made out of metal and wood and are made of relatively small structural members of interconnected triangles.

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A truss is structure that consist of triangles put together and used on bridges, roofing, and towers. They can handle large loads and can transfer the load like load bearing beams, and other things. truss can change the weight of a building. There is many types of truss that can be used in many different large or small buildings.

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Common truss types are the Pratt truss, Howe truss, Warren truss, the modified Warren truss and the Vierendeel truss.

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There are many different types of trusses one is called a Simple truss, another one is a Planar truss, and the last one is called a space frame truss. A Planar truss lies in a single plane, while a space frame truss is a three dimensional framework. However, a simple truss is the simplest form of a truss which is a triangle.

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one of the most common forms of truss the Pratt truss was invented in 1844, 4 years after the Howe truss

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A truss must be composed of slender bars joined to other bars only through frictionless pins at their ends and connected to external points only through it's ends.

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The 1895 Bunker Hill Bridge near Claremont in Catawba County is the only wooden truss bridge that still survives largely intact

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Trusses are designed to be efficient and economical, while maintaining little to no force other than axial pressure in each of the nodes or joints.

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Most trusses are made up of vertical and diagonal lines. 

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There are three different forms of truss (Simple, Planar, and Space)

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Simple trusses are typically a single flat triangle

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Planar trusses are typically a collection of flat triangles

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Space trusses usually consist of one or more tetrahedrons

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Trusses are used to reduce weight in bridges and support heavy equipment such as a semi

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Truss will never be the same as their projected models in actual life. This is because when pin jointed trusses are made they are welded or bolted together, which can either cause some parts to grind against each other or they won't move as freely.

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In real life most trusses resist some rotation but it is so little that it will barely be enough to notice.

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Some of the most common forms of trusses that you can find around you are the Pratt, Howe, and Warren truss patterns. Most of these patterns originated from the Pratt pattern.

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The word truss originates from the old french word trousse

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If you want a perfect truss, then you would have to spend a lot of money and put so much effort into the fine details so it will act like the projected model.