7.MS-ETS3-4 Structural System Vocab

Part of a structural system that supports and anchors the superstructure of a building and transmits its loads

• Foundation

• Walls

• Live Load

• Decking

Any structure which serves as a raised horizontal platform on floor constructed of wood or other materials, without enclosing walls or roofs

• Dead Load

• Foundation

• Decking

• Torsion

A side of a building or room, typically forming part of the building's structure

• Flooring

• Walls

• Shear

• Roofing

The structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle

• Decking

• Compression

• Walls

• Roofing

The weight of people or goods in a building or vehicle

• Dead Load

• Compression

• Live Load

• Torsion

The weight of a structure or vehicle, excluding the weight of people or goods

• Tension

• Live Load

• Dead Load

• Shear

A pulling force acting in opposite directions

• Tension

• Torsion

• Shear

• Roofing

A twisting force

• Compression

• Torsion

• Decking

• Dead Load

Two unaligned forces acting on one part of the body in a specific direction and another part of the body in the opposite direction

• Shear

• Torsion

• Live Load

• Foundation

A physical force that presses inward on an object

• Decking

• Dead Load

• Tension

• Compression