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 ...

One of the trusses fell, causing a domino effect of 20 or more trusses also falling, pinning the victim underneath.

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 ...