Eksempler på rafter

• But this rather crude structure puts more strain on the rafters and requires considerable strengthening of the walls to cope with the lateral thrusts.

• This component of force along the rafter must be carried by a tenon with a comparatively small bearing area.

• The top of the king post is splayed to receive the principal rafters.

• It is not clear which direction the common rafters spanned between them.

• The collar-beam supports a king-post reaching the top of the rafters, forming the ridge.

• In that position the ends of the principal rafters are firmly restrained and their tendency to push the walls apart is most efficiently counteracted.

• In engineering terms, there is a component of the strut forces parallel to the rafter.

• These flowers are usually hung from the rafters to keep them free from contact with anything profane, thereby avoiding ritual pollution.

• In some properties rafters and beams had to be replaced including, in one instance, a hammer beam.

• The small rafters to be 5 8 to stand 10 in asunder.

• This is then affixed to the end of the rafter in the middle of the front of the stage.

• It consisted of an additional tie-beam with posts to support the diagonal rafters and a central principal, tied together with a collar: in other words, a small queenpost truss.

• The larger volume became the house proper, its ceilings following the rafters to create a high space, exposing the old timber trusses and admitting daylight from the glazed apex.

• I have bitterly lamented some decisions that we have taken and cheered others to the rafters.

• A report on the investigation of trussed rafter roofs is due to be published in early 1979.