Gusset plates are relatively flexible and minimize bending moments at the connections, thus allowing the truss members to carry primarily tension or compression.

Despite the disrepair, there are numerous examples of period advertising on the truss members.

This design allowed the hangers from the lower deck to go through the truss members of the upper deck.

Wind force may introduce larger forces in the individual truss members than the static vertical loads.

Since truss members work primarily in tension and compression, there is no appreciable loss of stiffness due to the bending of the end flexures.

Gusset plates are used to connect beams and columns together or to connect truss members.

These were installed first, then the diagonal and vertical truss members on the sides were installed.

Some structures are built with more than this minimum number of truss members.

Once the force on each member is known, the next step is to determine the cross section of the individual truss members.

His major breakthrough was that truss members could be analyzed as a system of forces in equilibrium.