Linear structural component designed to resist tension.
1 Thus in a wooden truss bridge the tension members are steel rods.
2 The shearing area of rivets in tension members was made 1½ times the useful section of plate in tension .
3 Nevertheless the tendency is to use riveted connexions in preference to pins, and in any case to use pins for tension members only.
4 In a Howe truss, the vertical tension members having their end connections near the bottom chord, would be equivalent to these shear members.
5 For tension members of bridges, steel of 65,000 to 75,000 pounds tenacity is usually specified; and for compression members, 80,000 to 90,000 pounds.
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