Struts Definition

Struts Sentence Examples

• The struts and ties are called bracing bars.

• The houses are built of wood and bamboo; and as the use of diagonal struts is not practised, the walls soon lean over from the force of the winds.

• The compression members are of timber, except the struts and bottom chord panels next the river piers, which are of steel.

• The Howe truss had timber chords and a lattice of timber struts, with vertical iron ties.

• In the Pratt truss the struts were vertical and the ties inclined.