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There are so many “types” of trusses and in this video I go through the differences between them, how they got their different names, and which aren’t actually trusses even though they say they are!

0:00 Introduction
0:29 HOWE TRUSS
0:41 COMPRESSION
1:07 PRATT TRUSS
1:40 WARREN TRUSS
2:15 TOWN LATTICE TRUSS
2:38 K-TRUSS
3:12 FINK TRUSS
3:36 KING POST TRUSS
4:05 QUEEN POST TRUSS
4:38 SCISSOR TRUSS
5:49 HAMMER BEAM "TRUSS"
6:44 VIERENDEEL "TRUSS"

An invaluable guide to trusses is the “Design Guide for Timber Trusses” by the Timber Frame Engineering Council and the Timber Framers Guild. It’s available here: https://www.tfguild.org/products/desi...

The music at most of the title stages is “Triangle Time Piece” by Jonathan Slatter. Yup, that’s right, a short bit of music played on the triangle which seemed super appropriate for this…and it’s only played on the title stage when the truss is a real truss!

I'm Paul Kassabian. I'm a structural engineer and a Principal at SGH in Boston, MA. I taught graduate students at MIT for nine years and currently teach on/off at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). These are videos based on my structural design projects and years of teaching structures to students.

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