Queen post

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A queen post is a tension member in a truss that can span longer openings than a king post truss. A king post uses one central supporting post, whereas the queen post truss uses two.Gopi, Satheesh. Basic civil engineering. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2010. 155. Print. {{ISBN|8131729885}} Even though it is a tension member, rather than a compression member, they are commonly still called a post. A queen post is often confused with a queen strut, one of two compression members in roof framing which do not form a truss in the engineering sense."Timber Framing for Beginners: VI. Glossary of Terms" Timber Framing Vol. 68 June 2003. 12. {{cite web|url=http://tfguild.businesscatalyst.com/downloads/publications/Glossary-of-Timber-Framing-Terms.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207175716/http://tfguild.businesscatalyst.com/downloads/publications/Glossary-of-Timber-Framing-Terms.pdf |archive-date=December 7, 2012 }}

The double punch truss appeared in Central Europe during the Renaissance.{{Cite book |last=Lefrançois |first=Richard |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.pum.18081 |title=Les nouvelles frontières de l'âge |date=2004 |publisher=Presses de l’Université de Montréal |doi=10.4000/books.pum.18081 |isbn=978-2-7606-1963-0}}