What are trusses?

A truss is like a super strong triangle made out of sticks or beams that holds up big things like bridges and roofs.

Imagine you're building a treehouse with your friends. If you just use one plank between two trees, it might sag in the middle. But if you add a diagonal stick from the top of one tree to the bottom of the other, making a triangle, it becomes much stronger. That’s what a truss does! It uses triangles to spread out the weight evenly so nothing breaks.

A truss is made up of many small triangles connected together. Each triangle helps share the weight, so no one part has to hold everything by itself. This makes the whole structure very strong and stable, just like how your legs help you stand tall without wobbling!

You can think of a truss as a bunch of little helpers working together, each doing their job so the big job gets done, like when you and your friends all push on a swing at the same time to make it go higher!