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Originally Posted by BillyMac
So does your truss. (Apologies to Don Rickles.)
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Billy:
Keeping in mind that I am a structural engineer (Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering, William Rayen School of Engineering, Youngstown (Ohio) State University, Class of 1980), what type of truss?
Allan
Bailey
Baltimore
Bollmann
Brown
Burr Arch
Callender-Hamilton
Cantilever
Dare
DeBurg
Fink
Haupt
Howe
Kingpost
Lattice
Lenticular with penticular web
Long
Paddleford
Parker
Pegram
Pennsylvania through
Pettit
Pony
Post
Pratt
Smith
Thacher
Town lattice
Truesdell
Vierendeel
Waddell "A"
Warren
Whipple
Of course my favorite is the Bailey Bridge, which played a major role in the bridging of many streams and rivers by the Allies during World War II. A major reference is in the movie A Bridge Too Far which is based on Cornelius Ryan's book describing Operation Market-Garden, when the Allies attempted to capture five bridges in the Netherlands across the Meuse, Wall, and Lower Rhine Rivers, in September 1944.
MTD, Sr.