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Brace,
brace, braces, or
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Brace(s) or
bracing may
refer to:
Orthopaedic brace, a
device used to restrict...
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Hydraulic Tensioning Glossary Hydraulic...
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Under lateral force (such as wind or
seismic activity) one
brace will be
under tension while the
other is
being compressed. In
steel construction, steel...
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commonly brace a bay
diagonally or in a
chevron pattern.
Because maximum tension and
compression forces in a BRB are much
closer than in a
standard brace, there...
- guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also
called simply a guy, is a
tensioned cable designed to add
stability to a
freestanding structure. They are...
- A buckling-restrained
brace (BRB) is a
structural brace in a building,
designed to
allow the
building to
withstand cyclical lateral loadings, typically...
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varying brace design, each
builder has
sought to
produce a
sound that
conformed to his
concept of the ideal." The back of the
instrument is
braced to help...
- compression, the
bottom beams are
called 'bottom chords', and are
typically in
tension. The
interior beams are
called webs, and the
areas inside the webs are...
- form of struts,
which act in
compression or
tension as the need arises, and/or wires,
which act only in
tension. In general,
bracing allows a stronger, lighter...
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consisting of chords, verticals, and
diagonals whose vertical members are in
tension and
whose diagonal members are in compression. The Howe
truss was invented...