Roof Truss Experiment Lab Report

It is a compilation of straight members organized to transmit any load to entire structure zureick 51.

Roof truss experiment lab report.

The thickness of the gusset is in the range of 8 mm to 12 mm in the case of roof trusses and it can be as high as 22 mm in the case of bridge trusses. The design used here in the warren truss figure 1. A truss is a common and basic design in bridge structures. In short span 8 12 m roof trusses the member forces are smaller.

Lab report for engineering lab 2. Statics design bridge report course outline. Truss bridge geometry materials common truss bridges are from steel. Civil engineering baa uploaded by.

Academia edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. For this purpose two of the four aluminum made trusses namely warren truss and pratt truss are analyzed first experimentally and than theoretically. Roof trusses are frames made up of timber that is nailed. What you will do in the lab.

Introduction the purpose of this lab report is to analyze how accurate the theoretical analyses of different trusses are. Experiment 3 roof truss 2. Royal melbourne institute of technology. Please sign in or register to post comments.

The instructions to set up the strain gage are given on the p3500 box. Cantilever truss lab report. The design of gussets is usually by rule of thumb. You will choose one of the strain gages and use the p 3500 strain indicator to measure the strain.

Truss structures lab report abstract this experiment involved the creation of a warren truss bridge in an attempt to experimentally validate the mathematical methods commonly used to theoretically evaluate structural stability and integrity. Wednesday friday 11 19 21 08 laboratory report due. Project report on truss bridge. Questions experiment 1 tensile testing of metals arc visualizer adv m b.

In class wednesday 11 26 08 overview a three dimensional truss is tested under transverse loading and the load deflection characteristics and the internal bar member strains are measured. Roof truss statics lab. 1 0 objective of the experiment 2 2 0 learning outcome 2 3 0 theory 2 4 0. Set loads were applied to the structure and used to determine the axial forces in various members of the truss throughout the course of the experiment and.

The truss in class session. Force in redundant truss full report table.