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Glossary of Truss terminology
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American Softwood Lumber Standard
American Standard Lumber
Anchorage
ANSI/TPI 1, American National Standard,
National Design Standard For Metal Plate Connected Wood Trusses
ANSI/TPI 2, American National Standard,
Standard For Testing Performance For Metal-Plate-Connected Wood Trusses
Architect
Attic Scuttle
Axial Force
Axial Stress
Beam Pocket
Bearing
Bending Moment
Bending Stress
Bird's Mouth Cut
Board
Board Foot
Bottom Chord
Bottom Chord Bearing
Bottom Chord Upset
Bottom Plate
Bow
Bracing
Break Point Joint
Building Designer
Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA)
Built-Up Beam
Built-Up Roof
Butt Cut
Butt Joint
CAD
Camber
Cambium
Cantilever
Center Bearing Truss
Center Line Span
Chase Opening
Check
Chord
Clear Span (Clear Opening)
Clinched Nail
Clipped End
Collar Beam
Collar Tie
Combined Stress
Combined Stress Index (CSI)
Composite Lumber (Structural, Wood Composites)
Compound Cut
Compression Chord
Compression Parallel-To-Grain
Compression Perpendicular-To-Grain
Compression Wood
Concentrated Load
Conifer
Construction Design Documents
Continuous Lateral Bracing
Contractor
Conventional Framing
Creep
Cricket
Crook
Cross Bracing
Cross Bridging
Cup
Cutting Sheets
Dead Load
Decay
Defect
Deflection
Dense
Depth Effect Factor
Design Loads
Diagonal Bracing
Dimension Lumber
Dressed Lumber
Dressed Size
Drywall
DSB-89, Recommended Design Specification for Temporary Bracing of Metal Plate Connected Wood Trusses
Dual Pitch Truss
Duration Of Load
E
Early Wood
Earthquake Load
End Jack
Engineer of Record
Equilibrium Moisture Content
Fascia
Feather Cut
Fiber Saturation Point
Fire Retardant
Force Diagram
Gable
Gable End Frame
Gambrel
Gang Nail
Girder Truss
Grade
Green
Gypsum Board
Header
Heart Shake
Heartwood
Heel Cut
Heel Joint
HIB-91,
Hip Corner
Hip Girder
Hip Roof
Hip Set
Horizontal Shear
Hydraulic Press
I-Joist
Impact Load
Incise
Interior Bearing
International Code Council (ICC)
International Congress Of Building Code Officials (ICBO)
Jig
Joint
Joist
Juvenile Wood
Kicker
Knee Brace
Knot
Ladder Panel
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)
Late Wood
Lateral Bracing
Let Tails Run
Level Return
Live Load
Load
Load-Bearing Wall
Longitudinal
Lumber
Machine Evaluated Lumber (MEL)
Machine-Graded Lumber
Machine-Stress Rated Lumber (MSR)
Mechanical Property
Metal Connector Plate
Miter Cut
Model Building Code
Modulus of Elasticity (MOE or E)
Moisture Content
Moment
Monopitch Truss
Nail-On Plate
Nailer
National Design Specification® (NDS ®)
For Wood Construction
National Evaluation Report (NER)
Net Free Ventilated Area
Nominal Size
Notch
Old Growth Timber
On Edge
On The Flat
Out-To-Out Span
Outrigger
Overall Span
Overall Truss Depth
Overhang
Owner
Panel
Panel Length
Panel Point
Parallel Chord Truss (PCT)
Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL)
Particleboard Underlayment
Peak
Penny
Permanent Bracing
Piggy Back Truss
Pitch
Pith
Plate
Plenum
Plumb Cut
Ply
Plywood
Press
Press-On Plate
Pressure-Treated Wood
Professional Engineer (PE)
Profile Drawing
Purdue Plane Structures Analyzer (PPSA)
Purlin
Radial
Rafter
Rake
Reaction
Ridge
Ridge Vent
Rim Joist
Rise
Roller Press
Roof Jack
Roof Scuttle
Run
Saddle
Scab
Scissors Truss
Scupper
Sealed Drawings
Seasoning
Second Growth
Seismic Load
Select individual
Set Back
Set-Up
Shake
Shear
Shear Stress
Shoulder Joint
Shrinkage
Sill
Size Factor
Slider
Slope
Sloped Soffit
Soffit
Soffit Vents
Softwoods
Sound-Deadening Board
Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI)
Span
Specific Gravity
Splice
Spring Wood
Square Cut
Stacked Chords
Step Down Truss
Stick Framing
Stress
Stress-Graded Lumber
Strongback Bridging
Structural Board
Structural Building Components
Structural Composite Lumber (SCL)
Stub Truss
Stud
Studded Gable
Substrate
Summer Wood
T-Brace
Tangential
Temporary Bracing
Tension Parallel-To-Grain
Thrust
Toenail
Top Chord
Top Chord Bearing
Top Plate
Transverse
Trimmer
Truss
Truss Design Drawing
Truss Designer
Truss Manufacturer (Truss Fabricator)
Truss Perpendicular-To-Grain
Truss Placement Plan
Truss Plate
Truss Spacing
Twist
Uniform Load
Valley
Valley Truss
Visual Grade Lumber
Wane
Warp
Web Member
Wedge
Wind Load
Wood
Wood-Destroying Organisms
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