×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Reference guide on reading truss design printout
2

Reference guide on reading truss design printout

Reference guide on reading truss design printout

(OP)
I am an Ag Engineer and I have been tasked to review truss designs for wooden pole barn building in a agricultural setting.  Is there a publication or website that can help me decipher all of the information printed on the small manufacturer design sheets.  I know the basics like load values, EXP, etc but I need a better understanding of truss to structural post bracing values, for example.

RE: Reference guide on reading truss design printout

I would contact the manufacturer who did the design.

The software packages for plated truss design are usually proprietary, and specific to the plates manufactured by a given company.
 

RE: Reference guide on reading truss design printout

I have been on both sides of this issue, as a reviewer of shop drawings and as a preparer of shop drawings for glulam trusses.

I would require the supplier to provide enough information so that you can complete your review.  They may resist because a lot of reviewers just look for a P.E. seal and don't look into it very much.

On the last truss job I reviewed I even verified that the engineer who signed the calculations was still currently registered.

As a reviewer I believe that the supplier has the responsibility to provided me with the information I require to complete a proper review.

Having submitted shop drawing calculations with pages of computer output, I know that most reviewers do not have a clue as to what the output actuals shows.  

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources