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 ...

Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) So I've been asked to set out these roof trusses today, on this wall plate. The chimney works out to be about 400mm off this internal wall. After I've marked that ...

At about 12:52 p.m., Lesko was working on the roof of the construction where there were several trusses in a temporary holding position, in order to be permanently installed. One of the trusses ...