Struc - Vda - 9106 - Frame

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FRAME
What is a skeletal structure of relatively
slender members designed
to give shape and support to a building
or other construction?

BRACED FRAME
What is a structural frame whose
resistance to lateral forces is provided by
diagonal or other type of bracing?

RIGID FRAME
What is a structural frame of linear
members rigidly connected at their
joints?

HINGED FRAME
What is a rigid frame connected to its
supports with pin joints?

3-HINGED FRAME
What is a structural assembly of
two rigid sections connected to each
other and to its supports with pin joints?

A-FRAME
What is a building constructed with a
steep triangular frame resting directly on
a foundation?

FIXED FRAME
What is a rigid frame connected to its
supports with fixed joints?

PLASTIC HINGE
What is a virtual hinge that develops
when all fibers are fully yielded at a cross
section of a structural member?

SIDESWAY
What is the lateral displacement
produced in a rigid frame by lateral loads
or asymmetrical vertical loading?

BENT
What is a braced or rigid frame designed
to carry vertical and lateral loads
transverse to the length of a framed
structure?

KNEE
What is the junction of the top and either
of the uprights of a bent?

PORTAL
What is a rigid frame of
2 columns and a beam defining a single
bay, also called single-bay frame?

MULTIBAY FRAME
What is a rigid frame having a
continuous beam supported by and
rigidly connected to 3 or more columns?

MULTISTORY FRAME
What is a vertical series of
superimposed rigid frames?

TRANSFER COLUMN
What is a discontinuous column in a
multistory frame, supported at some
intermediate level where its load is
transferred to adjacent columns?

TRANSFER GIRDER
What is a girder supporting a transfer
column?

DEGREE OF FREEDOM
What is the number of members required
to stabilize a collapse mechanism?

DETERMINATE
What is pertaining to a structure
able to be analyzed completely by
means of the principles of statics?

REDUNDANCY
What is a structural member, connection,
or support not required for a statically
determinate structure?

DEGREE OF
REDUNDANCY
What is the number of members
beyond that required for the stability of a
statically determinate structure?

INDETERMINATE
What is pertaining to a structure having
more than the minimum number of
members, connections, or supports
needed for stability, resulting in
more unknown forces than there are
static equations for solutions?
DEGREE OF
INDETERMINACY
What is pertaining to the difference
between the number of unknown forces
in an indeterminate structure and the
number of static equations available for
solution?

FRAMING
What is the act, process, or manner of
fitting and joining together relatively
slender members to give shape and
support to a structure?

FRAMEWORK
What is a skeletal structure of parts
fitted and joined together in order
to support, define, or enclose?

SKELETON
CONSTRUCTION
What is a system of construction utilizing
a framework of columns and beams to
transmit building loads down to the
foundation?

PLANK-&-BEAM
CONSTRUCTION
What is the floor or roof construction
utilizing a framework of timber beams to
support wood planks or decking?

POST-&-BEAM
CONSTRUCTION
What is the wall construction utilizing a
framework of vertical posts and horizontal
beams to carry floor and roof loads,
also called post-and-lintel construction?

PRINCIPAL BEAM
What is any large beam in a structural
frame that supports secondary beams
or joists, also called primary beam?

SECONDARY BEAM
What is any beam that transmits its load
to a principal beam?

TERTIARY BEAM
What is any beam that transmits its load
to a secondary beam?

GIRDER
What is a large principal beam designed
to support concentrated loads at
isolated points along its length?

TRABEATE
What is pertaining to a system of
construction employing
beams or lintels?

ARCUATE
What is pertaining to a system of
construction employing
arches or arched forms?

POLE
CONSTRUCTION
What is a system of construction
employing vertical structure of pressuretreated wood poles which are firmly
embedded in the ground as a pier
foundation?

POLE HOUSE
What is a house of pole construction?

POLE
What is a long, cylindrical, often
slender piece of wood or metal?

STILT
What is one of several piles or posts for
supporting a structure above the surface
of land or water?

LIGHT FRAME
CONSTRUCTION
What is a system of construction utilizing
closely spaced and sheathed members of
dimension lumber or light-gauge metal
to form the structural elements of a
building?

BRACED FRAME
What is a building frame employing a
heavy, braced framework of solid girts
mortised into solid posts the full height of
the frame, with studs one story high filling
the interstices, also called full frame?

SUMMER
What is a heavy timber serving as a
principal beam or girder, also called
summertree?

BREASTSUMMER
What is a summer supporting a
wall over opening?

TRAVE
What is a crossbeam or a bay formed by
crossbeams?

BINDER
What us a principal beam supporting the
ends of 2 sets of floor joists, also called
binding beam?

GIRT
What is a horizontal timber connecting
the posts of a braced frame at an
intermediate level above the ground
floor?

RAISED GIRT
What is a girt parallel to and
level with the floor joists, also called
flush girt?

DROPPED GIRT
What is a girt set below the floor joists it
supports?

HALF TIMBER
What is a timber framework with the
spaces filled with masonry or plaster?

OPEN-TIMBERED
What is timber constructed so that a
framework of timbers is exposed?

SOLAR/SOLLER
What is a room or apartment on an upper
floor of a medieval English house?

JETTY/JUTTY
What is an upper story of a building
projecting beyond the one below?

PAN
What is a major vertical division of a wall,
esp. a nogged panel of half-timber
construction?

NOG
What is one of a number of short
wooden pieces inserted between the
principal members of a half-timbered wall
to strengthen the frame and retain the
brick infill?

NOGGING
What is the brick masonry used to fill
the spaces between the members of a
timber frame?

WATTLE
What is a framework of rods or poles
interwoven with thin branches, twigs,
and reeds, used in the construction of
walls and fences?

WATTLE & DAUB

What is a form of wall construction,
consisting of wattles covered and
plastered with clay or mud?

THATCH
What is a material for covering a roof, as
straw, rushes, or palm leaves, fastened
together so as to shed water and
sometimes to provide thermal insulation?

LOUVER
What is a lantern or turret on the roof of
a medieval building having slatted
apertures for the escape of smoke and
admission of air?


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Reference: Visual Dictionary of Architecture by FDK Ching

SAMONIAN DIGITAL LIBRARY

Reference: Visual Dictionary of Architecture by FDK Ching

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