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TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

(OP)
Disregarding load testing...What type of analysis/calculations can be used to justify the, relatively, high loads that light gage timber/hanger
connections appear to have?  Also, what literature is available in this regard?

RE: TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

Simpson Co. fabricates many of these hangers and have done extensive testing on them.

www.simpsonanchors.com

RE: TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

(OP)
WHAT ARE THE DESIGN ASSUMPTIONS?
WHAT ARE THE ANALYSIS ASSUMPTIONS?
HOW IS IT THAT ,APPARENTLY, FAIRLY HEAVY LOADS ARE TRANSFERRED BY RELATIVELY, THIN 1/4" PLATE ASSEMBLIES...
---HOW DO THESE TIMBER SADDLE HANGER CONNECTIONS WORK?

I'M NOT INTERESTED IN WHAT SIMPSON DOES.......THEY APPARENTLY, LOAD TEST THEM.....BUT, THERE MUST BE A WAY TO ANALYSIS THEM--USING SIMPLE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESES HANGERS...ALSO, THE
PREFAB/OFF THE SHELF MODELS ARE NOT PLEASANT TO LOOK AT.
 THANKS,

RE: TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

Sounds like you should dig out your mechanics of materials  and theory of plates books and just buckle down and use some grey matter.  Remember, a good finite element model can do many many things.  Simple doesn't always exist, jump in and find out.

RE: TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

(OP)
THANKS,

NO FREE LUNCH, HUH?

RE: TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

Do note that the Simpson hanger require many nails to aquire the "relatively high loads." SO, if you can imagine loading a piece of steel in tension, with enough nails to prevent torsion and create a fairly uniform load distribution, maybe you will have some faith in the strap hangers. Of course, the capacities of simpson hangers is not that high relative to the loads I look at, but I still think they are good, and beat the living hell out of the toenailing I have seen in some residential construction.

This probably still doesn't answer your question, but I still haven't figured out exactly what you are wondering.

Daniel

RE: TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS

(OP)
THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS DISCUSSION
ON TIMBER HANGER CONNECTIONS....IT HAS BEEN HELPFUL...

ONCE AGAIN, THANKS,
LEXTOO

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