Roof Truss Experiment Lab Report

A truss is a common and basic design in bridge structures.

Roof truss experiment lab report.

Project report on truss bridge. Questions experiment 1 tensile testing of metals arc visualizer adv m b. 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. Tuesday 11 18 08 laboratory work.

Roof truss statics lab. Lab report for engineering lab 2. It is a compilation of straight members organized to transmit any load to entire structure zureick 51. The truss in class session.

The instructions to set up the strain gage are given on the p3500 box. Civil engineering baa uploaded by. The design of gussets is usually by rule of thumb. Roof trusses are frames made up of timber that is nailed.

What you will do in the lab. You will choose one of the strain gages and use the p 3500 strain indicator to measure the strain. Force in redundant truss full report table. Experiment 3 roof truss 2.

Please sign in or register to post comments. Truss bridge geometry materials common truss bridges are from steel. Cantilever truss lab report. Introduction the purpose of this lab report is to analyze how accurate the theoretical analyses of different trusses are.

You will apply the load at the center of the truss as shown and record the strain. The design used here in the warren truss figure 1. Royal melbourne institute of technology. 1 0 objective of the experiment 2 2 0 learning outcome 2 3 0 theory 2 4 0.

Wednesday friday 11 19 21 08 laboratory report due. 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. Statics design bridge report course outline. For this purpose two of the four aluminum made trusses namely warren truss and pratt truss are analyzed first experimentally and than theoretically.

The application of truss also can be apply in the roof construction. 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.