FRAMED STRUCTURE

Universidad Simón BolívarJanuary – March 2010English 2Student: Dafne Pozo

Introduction

A framed structure is a structure supported

mainly by skeleton.

Rigid frames have fixed joints that enablethe frames to resist lateral forces; other frames require diagonal bracing or shear walls and diaphragms for lateral stability. The framed Structure function is stability or statically the construction.

History

Prehistoric Edifications Great Pyramid of Giza

Saint-Eustache church. Paris, France

The Eiffel TowerTwo Towers of Bologna

Kinds of framed structure Jetties

Projecting ("jettied") upper stories of an English half-timbered village terraced house, The jetties are plainly visible.

A jetty is an upper floor that depends on a cantilever system in which a horizontal beam, the jetty bressummer, on which the wall above rests, projects outward beyond the floor below.

Kinds of framed structure Timbers

Porch of a modern timber-framed house

The vertical timbers include:•Post (main supports at corners and other major uprights)•Wall studs (subsidiary upright limbs in framed walls), for example, close studding.

The horizontal timbers include:•sill-beams (also called ground-sills or sole-pieces, at the bottom of a wall into which posts and studs are fitted using tenons).•noggin-pieces (the horizontal timbers forming the tops and bottoms of the frames of infill-panels). •wall-plates (at the top of timber-framed walls that support the trusses and joists of the roof.

Material Framed Structures.

Wood

Concrete

Steel

Iron

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