angle strut

angle strut

[′aŋ·gəl ‚strət]
(civil engineering)
An angle-shaped structural member which is designed to carry a compression load.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

angle strut

An angle-shaped structural member which is designed to carry a compression load.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Kitipornchai and Lee (1984) reported an experimental investigation into the inelastic buckling of axially loaded pin-ended single angle, tee, and double angle struts. A total of 54 struts were tested, comprising of 13 single equal and unequal-leg angles (repeated twice), and 12 tee struts.
Eccentrically loaded single angle struts, Engineering Journal, AISC 29(2): 59-66.
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF STEEL EQUAL ANGLE SUBJECTED TO COMPRESSION
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