structural system (ESN 97107)
Structural systems are forms of construction utilized to resist vertical forces (gravity) and lateral pressures (wind and earthquakes) against a building. The principal structural system of a building is its framing system; foundation systems are covered separately.
The basic form of a structure's force-resisting framework.
- bundled tube (ESN 32530)
- buttressed core (ESN 22530)
- core plus outrigger (ESN 12480)
- framed tube (ESN 62638)
- rigid frame (ESN 19784)
- shear wall (ESN 77339)
- shear wall plus frame (ESN 41644)
- space truss (ESN 98226)
- superframe (ESN 75956)
- trussed frame (ESN 83149)
- trussed tube (ESN 57481)
- tube-in-tube (ESN 47861)