Queen post

Queen Post
	Interior structure of a covered bridge that uses a queen-post structure
Ancestor	Truss bridge
Related	None
Descendant	None
Carries	Pedestrians, livestock, vehicles
Span range	short to medium
Material	wood planks
Movable	No
Design effort	medium
Falsework required	Sometimes

A queen post is a tension member in a truss that can span longer openings than a king post truss. A king post uses one central supporting post, whereas the queen post truss uses two.^[1] Even though it is a tension member, rather than a compression member, they are commonly still called a post. A queen post is often confused with a queen strut, one of two compression members in roof framing which do not form a truss in the engineering sense.^[2]

The double punch truss appeared in Central Europe during the Renaissance.^[3]

Architecture

A queen-post bridge has two uprights, placed about one-third of the way from each end of the truss. They are connected across the top by a beam and use a diagonal brace between the outer edges. The central square between the two verticals is either unbraced (on shorter spans), or has one or two diagonal braces for rigidity. A single diagonal reaches between opposite corners; two diagonal braces may either reach from the bottom of each upright post to the center of the upper beam, or form a corner-to-corner "X" inside the square.^[4]

References

^ Gopi, Satheesh. Basic civil engineering. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2010. 155. Print. ISBN 8131729885
^ "Timber Framing for Beginners: VI. Glossary of Terms" Timber Framing Vol. 68 June 2003. 12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Lefrançois, Richard (2004). Les nouvelles frontières de l'âge. Presses de l’Université de Montréal. doi:10.4000/books.pum.18081. ISBN 978-2-7606-1963-0.
^ American Barns and Covered Bridges, Eric Sloane, Wilfred Funk, Inc. New York, New York; 1954, pg 96-97

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[1] Gopi, Satheesh. Basic civil engineering. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2010. 155. Print. ISBN 8131729885

[2] "Timber Framing for Beginners: VI. Glossary of Terms" Timber Framing Vol. 68 June 2003. 12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] Lefrançois, Richard (2004). Les nouvelles frontières de l'âge. Presses de l’Université de Montréal. doi:10.4000/books.pum.18081. ISBN 978-2-7606-1963-0.

[4] American Barns and Covered Bridges, Eric Sloane, Wilfred Funk, Inc. New York, New York; 1954, pg 96-97

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