En ingeniería estructural, una celosía es una estructura reticular de barras rectas interconectadas en nudos formando triángulos planos (en celosías planas) o pirámides tridimensionales (en celosías espaciales). En muchos países se les conoce como armaduras o reticulados. El interés de este tipo de estructuras es que la barras trabajan predominantemente a compresión y tracción presentando comparativamente flexiones pequeñas. El término está tomado de la celosía arquitectónica tradicional. Las celosías pueden ser construidas con materiales diversos: acero, madera, aluminio, etc. Las uniones pueden ser articuladas o rígidas. En las celosías de nudos articulados la flexión es despreciable siempre y cuando las cargas que debe soportar la celosía estén aplicadas en los nudos de unión de las barras. Una cercha es una celosía de canto variable a dos aguas.

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In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A "two-force member" is a structural component where force is applied to only two points. Although this rigorous definition allows the members to have any shape connected in any stable configuration, trusses typically comprise five or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes. In this typical context, external forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in forces in the members that are either tensile or compressive. For straight members, moments (torques) are explicitly excluded because, and only because, all the joints in a truss are treated as revolutes, as is necessary for the links to be two-force members. A planar truss is one where all members and nodes lie within a two dimensional plane, while a space truss has members and nodes that extend into three dimensions. The top beams in a truss are called top chords and are typically in compression, the bottom beams are called bottom chords, and are typically in tension. The interior beams are called webs, and the areas inside the webs are called panels.

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