The Cessna 120, introduced in 1946, bequeathed its strut-braced wings to nearly all of its successors, making struts and single-engine Cessnas almost synonymous.

His students based their bridges on Warren truss and Pratt truss designs, which incorporate triangular structural components, and the arch bridge, an ancient design with abutments at each end.

Upside down can be right side up. That's what NASA researchers determined for tests of an efficient wing concept that could be part of the agency's answer to making future aircraft sustainable.

In FIGG's design, though, the "cables" — actually metal pipes — were mostly just for show. The diagonal, v-shaped struts of the truss did the structural work.

With a US$425-million cash injection from NASA, Boeing will build and test a full-sized airliner based on its transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) concept, using long, thin, strut-braced wings to ...

Every bit of weight on an aircraft increases the fuel, emissions and money required to put it in the air. NASA and Boeing have been working together to design a longer, thinner and lighter wing – so ...

Strut and weave For their new study, the team fabricated a metamaterial by combining two microscopic architectures. The first is a rigid, grid-like scaffold of struts and trusses.

A new analysis could help architects and builders reduce the carbon footprint of truss structures, the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings.

What are truss bridges? They are a unique type of bridges that are composed of trusses, which are triangle units formed by connecting struts.

SSL is now using the same strut-truss design methodology on other satellites it is building. That includes 13 structures SSL is designing and manufacturing.