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Columns are generally thought of as the vertical supporting members of buildings. However, there are other structural members that act as columns—the piers of a bridge or the compression chord of a truss, for example. Generally columns are compression members, but they can also have combined compression and bending or can even have tensile axial force under loading that causes uplift. For purposes of design, we define a column as a structural member whose primary loads are axial compression.
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Stalnaker, J.J., Harris, E.C. (1989). Selecting Sawn-Timber Compression and Tension Members. In: Structural Design in Wood. VNR Structural Engineering Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9996-4_7
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