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web member

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noun

Civil Engineering.

  1. any of the structural members of a truss between the chords.

Etymology

Origin of web member

First recorded in 1885–90

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To apply the common analogy of a truss: each shear member would represent a tension web member in the truss, and each would have to take all the shear occurring in a section through it.

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