Most new home construction now utilizes pre-engineered and built roof trusses, as opposed to traditional rafter framing to form the roof structure of the house. This type of framing construction ...

The truss shown above is DETERMINATE. Member loads depend on only equilibrium relations. Material properties, cross-sectional areas and member lengths do not factor in on the member loads. It is easy ...

Roof trusses and floor trusses are support structures that consist of one or more triangular units that are made with straight, slender members and connected at the ends as joints. Roof trusses are ...

F.O.G. Architecture skimmed the building to expose its skeleton, featuring triangle-shaped timber roof trusses and a series of wooden columns. The resultant column field became the visual centre ...