trusses

• Because we're using escalators to move people, all of these trusses are picking up diagonal loads. —  Greg Lynn on calculus in architecture
• Now the roof trusses were all that remained to be examined. —  Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
• Red and blue pennants dangle from the trusses, and garlands of wildflowers are woven around the handrails In the Bridgeton mess hall, the long tables have been laid out, and dozens of chickens and pigs have been butchered, in preparation for a mid-day fiesta, while casks of sourgrass ale carted in from Shuttlefield wait to be tapped. —  Asimov'sSF,Jan2004
• By way you idiot AO, where do you think the ends of the trusses were attached to? —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
• The VersaTUBES are arranged in ten varying sized pods attached to the front of ten individual lighting trusses, all of which move into different configurations via a Kinesys automation system during the show. —  UK Regional Film and Television News

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