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Senior Truss Designer • Nelson Truss • Edgerton, WI
Trusses are engineered components that will perform as intended if installed correctly. However, those who are installing trusses are not always adept in deciphering truss layout drawings.
In this webinar the presenter discusses the various types of truss-to-truss connections the truss designer is responsible for specifying, including ply-to-ply, common-to-girder and truss field assembly.
Per ANSI/TPI 1, truss-to-truss connections are under the scope of work of the truss designer. All other connections between a truss and another structural member (i.e. a wall or foundation) are the responsibility of the building designer.
This presentation provides information on and requirements for truss repairs.
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This presentation provides information on truss uplift design.
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This presentation provides information on truss submittal packages.
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This program provides information on the installation of long span trusses.
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These unique truss configurations require special design considerations
Beginning with the 2015 IBC, truss deflection is reported differently.
Meet Jasper Diederiks, Sales Manager at Heartland Truss.
Partition separation is not typically caused by truss uplift.
Best practices for addressing truss alterations by plumbers
Remembering Abner Yoder, the founder of Stark Truss
- When a truss member is damaged, the anticipated flow of loads through the truss is disrupted, and that load must be resisted by another member(s).
$270 million project required 9,250 floor trusses, 1,580 roof trusses, and zero call backs
- Applied loading take-offs are critical to truss design efficiencies.
- Communication between the Truss Designer and Truss Design Engineer is key to minimizing truss design inaccuracies.
- The SBCA Load Guide is a free tool that can help Building Designers and everyone involved in the truss design process ensure that the applied loads are correct.
- Truss placement diagrams (TPD) are intended to assist in positioning trusses and related components supplied by the component manufacturer.
- On residential projects, the truss design engineer is responsible for the single truss design depicted on each truss design drawing.
- Since the TPD is not typically prepared under the truss designer engineer’s supervision, it is not considered an engineered document.
- It is not legal in most states for a truss design engineer to seal a non-registered person’s work for which he has
- When analyzing a girder truss, the Truss Designer needs to keep in mind the assumptions the truss analysis program makes regarding reaction capacities.
- It is the Building Designer’s responsibility to verify the capacity of the bearing surface, but the Truss Designer must ensure that the truss-to-bearing connection has a chance of being made without crushing.
- The article provides a series of concepts to use if a truss needs to be designed without knowing the bearing surface type and its feasibility of providing adequate support for the trusses.
This webinar reviews the various items that must be considered when designing and manufacturing metal plate connected wood trusses with Fire Retardant Treated Wood. Truss-to-truss connections will also be discussed.
The first two Standard of Care articles discussed deferred submittals and truss-to-truss connections. This article explores truss minimum required bearing width issues from the perspective of the design community.
BCSI is the truss industry's guide for jobsite safety and truss performance that includes the most current information regarding the handling, installation, restraining and bracing of metal plate connected wood trusses.
Produced by SBCA, BCSI is the truss industry's guide for jobsite safety and truss performance. This edition includes the most current information regarding the handling, installation, restraining and bracing of metal plate connected wood trusses.
The repair and modification of metal plate connected wood trusses can be a very complicated subject, because each situation must be analyzed individually. This Research Report will give an overview of the fundamental principles behind truss repair that inform the truss designer’s approach in all truss scenarios.
This presentation provides information on fire resistance rated truss assemblies.
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This presentation provides code-compliance information on conventionally framed roofs and roof trusses.
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This presentation provides information on sealed Truss Placement Diagrams for the state of Texas.
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This presentation provides information on floor loading for metal plate connected wood trusses.
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