Sentence examples for floor truss from inspiring English sources

The use of cold-formed steel members for roof and floor truss applications is gaining widespread acceptance in the United States.

Jack Daly, the construction manager who heard the helicopter pilot ditch the lightweight floor truss when it was caught in the wind that day in 1970, started to worry that part of the south tower might collapse.

Extensive use of prefabricated parts for the perimeter framing and floor truss systems helped speed up the construction process and reduce costs, while providing greater quality control.

"The floor trusses were relatively flimsy.

This paper presents the cost optimization of composite floor trusses.

There were no internal columns supporting the floors, and those floor trusses were very lightweight.

Jerome Connor, also of M.I.T., said, "The weakest link was definitely the connections of the floor trusses to the vertical members".

And you've got these floor trusses, made of fairly thin metal, and fire protection has been knocked off most of them by the impact.

Because there are fewer studs than usual, the floor trusses had to be placed directly over them, to transfer loads efficiently.

For longer spans, floor trusses can be made, with members joined by nail grids or nailed plywood gussets or with wood chords and diagonal metal web members.

In one set of laboratory tests concerning the floor trusses, researchers used earthquake simulators to violently shake assemblages much like the ceilings in the twin towers.