Framed+structure

Framed Structure The Framed Structures are one of the most used nowadays. It consists in a structure supported mainly by a skeleton that could be of wood, steel or reinforced concrete that is able to stand by itself without depending on floors or walls to resist deformation.

This skeleton has fixed joints to resists the lateral forces that act over it.

We can find three types of famed structures that are the Heavy Timber framing, the balloon frame and the light-frame construction. The heavy Timber framing was the most common structure of construction in Asia and Europe from the time of prehistory.

Then it was replaced by the balloon frame and the light-frame construction which provides the same stability but reduce the structures weight. This last structure is the most common used in The United States and Australia because of its economy and its good looking.

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