web member

noun

Civil Engineering.

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of web member¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

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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.